I believe one of the greatest benefits of interactive conversation is ability to interrupt, so that less effort is spent on crafting words that don’t help, and efficiency improves dramatically, allowing to communicate more novel ideas faster, to a point where some things get communicated that wouldn’t at all otherwise. If you aren’t allowed to interrupt, this benefit largely goes away.
(Another is in reducing trivial inconveniences that can otherwise prevent you from getting the ideas out, and here audio conversation trumps text chats.)
It sounds like by “interrupting” you mean “speaking when a line of reasoning has not been finished”, whereas Kaj meant “speaking when there is no pause”. It seems to me that the latter kind of interrupting only has the benefit that you say it does when the expected behavior is to speak for a long time without any pauses that could be used for the former kind of interrupting.
I believe one of the greatest benefits of interactive conversation is ability to interrupt, so that less effort is spent on crafting words that don’t help, and efficiency improves dramatically, allowing to communicate more novel ideas faster, to a point where some things get communicated that wouldn’t at all otherwise. If you aren’t allowed to interrupt, this benefit largely goes away.
(Another is in reducing trivial inconveniences that can otherwise prevent you from getting the ideas out, and here audio conversation trumps text chats.)
It sounds like by “interrupting” you mean “speaking when a line of reasoning has not been finished”, whereas Kaj meant “speaking when there is no pause”. It seems to me that the latter kind of interrupting only has the benefit that you say it does when the expected behavior is to speak for a long time without any pauses that could be used for the former kind of interrupting.