Semantic Noise

Output (Communication) made meaningless/misleading through sloppy word-choice (Critical Thinking). See also BullShit, Cognitive Bias, Misinformation/Disinformation.

cf Nature Of Truth

http://www.semanticnoise.com/why/semantic-noise/

http://www.helium.com/items/558037-semantic-noise-and-interpersonal-communications

Robert Anton Wilson quote : I distinguish between information, all that humans can check by experience, as distinct from noise, those "things" (or non-things, or nothings) that they can only make noises or chatter about.

Can NLTK identify it? See "Hypersecretary" bits in Brin's Earth

See General Semantics, Semantic Content, EPrime


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