Green apples are delicious — two three-line exchanges

LessWrong explores a linguistic puzzle: the phrase 'Green apples are delicious' can mean one thing to the speaker and something entirely different to the listener. One person might mean Granny Smiths; another, sour green-colored fruit. The author argues this gap between intent and understanding isn't just a linguistic curiosity — it's the same root cause behind programming bugs, LLM jailbreaks, and fundamental misunderstandings across language itself.

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