The heart of the course: “What can we learn about what other people are really thinking, about their mental models of the world, by paying very careful attention to the words they use?”
And I thought that course had •absolutely no practical relevance• to my career as a software developer until I started encountering text like this (ht @AndrzejWasowski):
https://scholar.social/@AndrzejWasowski/110388147932757071
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