Optimism, qualified: Ouroboros

Being clever is not always about being correct, but being optimistic might in some (or many) instances be the greatest self-deception of all. Systems of largely unsubstantiated belief, as our private and shared worlds tend to be, generate a threshold level of expansive uncertainty and referential or relational (i.e. semantic) undecidability. This then invokes and incentivises the production of yet more language. This is how an open system can also be a closed one – indicating that questions of system openness and closure can be constructively misleading.

From summary: “𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘤𝘩 𝘴𝘩𝘰𝘸𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘪𝘯𝘥𝘪𝘷𝘪𝘥𝘶𝘢𝘭𝘴 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘩𝘪𝘨𝘩 𝘤𝘰𝘨𝘯𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘷𝘦 𝘢𝘣𝘪𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘺 𝘵𝘦𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘰 𝘣𝘦 𝘮𝘰𝘳𝘦 𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘤 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘱𝘦𝘴𝘴𝘪𝘮𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘤 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘪𝘳 𝘧𝘶𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘦 𝘦𝘹𝘱𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴, 𝘸𝘩𝘪𝘭𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘰𝘴𝘦 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘭𝘰𝘸𝘦𝘳 𝘤𝘰𝘨𝘯𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘷𝘦 𝘢𝘣𝘪𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘺 𝘭𝘦𝘢𝘯 𝘵𝘰𝘸𝘢𝘳𝘥𝘴 𝘦𝘹𝘤𝘦𝘴𝘴𝘪𝘷𝘦 𝘰𝘱𝘵𝘪𝘮𝘪𝘴𝘮.”

Food for thought: in anything other than the most trivially simplistic cases, the explanatory closure 𝘰𝘧 language remain impossible 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯 language. For effective communication and strategic disambiguation in regards to relentlessly self-accelerating technological metamorphoses, language is simultaneously lock 𝘢𝘯𝘥 key.

Context: Optimism Linked to Poor Decision-Making and Lower Cognitive Skills