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Wasn't there an article the other day about a concept that's similar to incompleteness theorem? That any ambiguity-free language is incapable of completely describing sufficiently complex situations? Am I just imagining that? [0]

I feel like making a tool harder to use, just to prevent bad actors, only punishes good actors, while the bad actors find some other way to act badly. Like, I don't want to participate in your arms race against disinformation purveyors, i just want to illustrate that it tends to rain on days that are cloudy and have high humidity.

0. Sort of. I recently encountered "Colorless green ideas sleep furiously" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colorless_green_ideas_sleep_fu...), although where I can't recall, and sort of inferred the rest.



Regardless of whether or not there was such an article, I think the principle is the same, and it's a good analogy.




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