(02-26-2026, 01:13 PM)babushka Wrote:(02-26-2026, 01:03 PM)Ninurta Wrote: My well-being depends solely on rum. Well, a couple of daily chemicals to keep my heart ticking along in 3/4 time and to keep me from stroking out, but mostly it depends on the rum.
What you say here is absolutely true:
Quote:This form of digital communication makes it doubly difficult to get one's message or context or intent across in the exact way they meant it without typing a long wall of explanatory text.
People don't realize on how much true communication depends upon "body language" - stance, relaxation or tension, facial expression and more - all of it adds to and enriches communication. It gives nuances of meaning to the mere spoken word... and it is precisely what is missing from written, online communications. Without those ancillary indicators enriching the written word, people and their meanings are sometimes misinterpreted.
I worry about future generations and their apparent addiction to electronic media on specifically that account.If this form of communication takes over, will they even get enough in-person socialization to subconsciously teach them those cues?
Is the future of human communication going to be as automatons, void of expressions and social cues, robotic in nature?
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something I did notice is that people who communicate allot online seems to forget body language and all the other nuanced things we do does exist in communication and they are unable to deal with confrontation in real life.
Or, alternatively, unwilling to deal with certain types of confrontation in life just by being tired of all the stress and drama, or knowing ahead of time, through life's experience, what the particular type of confrontation's ending will in all probability end up being. That too could contribute to forgetting to notice nuances within digital communication or not bothering to make oneself more aware of writing style and/or subtle changes in the delivery.
(02-26-2026, 01:03 PM)Ninurta Wrote: My well-being depends solely on rum. Well, a couple of daily chemicals to keep my heart ticking along in 3/4 time and to keep me from stroking out, but mostly it depends on the rum.
What you say here is absolutely true:
Quote:This form of digital communication makes it doubly difficult to get one's message or context or intent across in the exact way they meant it without typing a long wall of explanatory text.
People don't realize on how much true communication depends upon "body language" - stance, relaxation or tension, facial expression and more - all of it adds to and enriches communication. It gives nuances of meaning to the mere spoken word... and it is precisely what is missing from written, online communications. Without those ancillary indicators enriching the written word, people and their meanings are sometimes misinterpreted.
I worry about future generations and their apparent addiction to electronic media on specifically that account.If this form of communication takes over, will they even get enough in-person socialization to subconsciously teach them those cues?
Is the future of human communication going to be as automatons, void of expressions and social cues, robotic in nature?
.
My poison is wine, well wine mixed with whatever I have on hand, to make a sort of sangria-type elixir. No other drugs are involved.
I can't answer any of those future automaton questions but my millennial daughter says she welcomes her LLM robotic overlords because they can't be any worse than what is in place now.
Truth fears no question. Anon