Sazen — LessWrong

A "sazen" is a word or phrase which accurately summarizes a given concept, while also being insufficient to generate that concept in its full richnes…

x Sazen — LessWrong Best of LessWrong 2022 Illusion of Transparency Philosophy of Language Wisdom Tacit Knowledge Rationality Curated 305 Sazen by Duncan Sabien (Inactive) 21st Dec 2022 14 min read 87 305 Purpose of post: describe and (hopefully) popularize a concept I've found highly useful. Last year, my partner Logan Strohl wrote a sequence to introduce the "naturalism" concept they've been developing and teaching for the past decade or so. That sequence was structured around a single, short sentence. The first essay introduced the sentence, and the remaining essays were primarily about exp

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