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> It hovers around what I see as an essential truth

Yeah, and it opens with basically saying "look, we know that we're going to talk about things ill suited to be captured by language, so keep that it mind"

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The fish trap exists because of the fish. Once you’ve gotten the fish you can forget the trap. The rabbit snare exists because of the rabbit. Once you’ve gotten the rabbit, you can forget the snare. Words exist because of meaning. Once you’ve gotten the meaning, you can forget the words.

Where can I find a man who has forgotten words so I can talk with him?

Not me. I'm keeping my traps and my words so I can keep using them tomorrow.

And I'm keeping my trap shut

Words are placeholders for meaning. Once you lose the words, you lose the ability to retain the thought with any reliable accuracy due to how our brains work.

Words are just a lossy inefficient stand-in for a vector embedding database.

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