Communicating with a blog

I want to communicate my ideas as precisely as possible. Because of this I won't be able to communicate as effectively as possible to a larger audience. While I do hope that a smaller audience is able to benefit from my writing, I write primarily for myself. Writing is deliberate and can be scrutinized in detail so the way I write is significantly different than the way I speak. I want to express myself at my highest level. I am going to write more casually than in a typically scholarly manner for the benefit of all involved but I will maintain the level of precision expected in scholarly writing.

Communication is complicated by the fact that we all have a unique distorted view of reality we call our perceptions. Every time we communicate anything directly to another person it goes through two layers of distortion. A source of distortion is our perception of individual words. The connotations and ways we use the same word is often different. A word like "love" is practically useless for precise communication because that word is overused. It is seen in a wide variety of contexts and it would seem to have as many definitions as people who utter the word. I try to avoid words like these but for that reason I included a list of definitions for some of the words I use. I do this to reduce the distortions inherent in translating what is meant by the words I am using. Sometimes people deliberately relish in the different connotations of words they use while forgetting about actually communicating their idea. An example of this is Randroids using the word selfish. That word has a positive connotation for Randroids because for them selfishness basically means acting exclusively for your self interest. An obnoxious Randroid enjoys the reaction they receive when they advocate selfishness.

Labels are frequently overused but they are far too useful and fun to be discarded. For this reason I will attempt to define every label I use. I try to avoid labeling myself if possible since it would confine me to a cul-de-sac. Rather labeling is useful as a heuristic for categorizing others. Even if you know nothing about someone, by acquiring enough information to assign a few labels, it opens up enough reasonable assumptions that can be made about a person to make accurate predictions about a wide variety of things regarding the person. When enough is known about a person labeling loses it's utility since assumptions can be filled in with actual knowledge and patterns disintegrate or get filled in. Discussion of game uses interesting labels and some authors expand the library of these labels. I want to avoid to this since I think these labels have become distracting as they approach meme status and slowly become meaningless. It's important not to forget that labels are nothing more than heuristics, while they have good accuracy, they still lack the precision I desire.