Conversation Deliberately Skirts The Border Of Incomprehensibility
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2017-06-27 19:53
And I think part of the answer might be: ordinary conversations are hard to predict because they’re designed to be so. Conversation norms are anti-inductive. Like Douglas Adams’ conception of the universe, any time people start to understand them too well, they have to get replaced with something a little bit less comprehensible.
source: SSC