Features like custom reactions gives me this feeling that.. language will emerge from allowing people to create reactions that will be hard to anticipate but, in retrospect, crucial. Playing a similar role that body language plays during conversation, but designed, defined, explicit.
If someone did want to introduce the delta through this system, it might be necessary to give the coiner of a reaction some way of linking an extended description. In casual exchanges.. I’ve found myself reaching for an expression that means “shifted my views in some significant lasting way” that’s kind of hard to explain in precise terms, and probably impossible to reduce to one or two words, but it feels like a crucial thing to measure. In my description, I would explain that a lot of dialogue has no lasting impact on its participants, it is just two people trying to better understand where they already are. When something really impactful is said, I think we need to establish a habit of noticing and recognising that.
But I don’t know. Maybe that’s not the reaction type that what will justify the feature. Maybe it will be something we can’t think of now.
Generally, it seems useful to be able to take reduced measurements of the mental states of the readers.
Having a reaction for “changed my view” would be very nice.
Features like custom reactions gives me this feeling that.. language will emerge from allowing people to create reactions that will be hard to anticipate but, in retrospect, crucial. Playing a similar role that body language plays during conversation, but designed, defined, explicit.
If someone did want to introduce the delta through this system, it might be necessary to give the coiner of a reaction some way of linking an extended description. In casual exchanges.. I’ve found myself reaching for an expression that means “shifted my views in some significant lasting way” that’s kind of hard to explain in precise terms, and probably impossible to reduce to one or two words, but it feels like a crucial thing to measure. In my description, I would explain that a lot of dialogue has no lasting impact on its participants, it is just two people trying to better understand where they already are. When something really impactful is said, I think we need to establish a habit of noticing and recognising that.
But I don’t know. Maybe that’s not the reaction type that what will justify the feature. Maybe it will be something we can’t think of now.
Generally, it seems useful to be able to take reduced measurements of the mental states of the readers.
This is essentially the concept of a folksonomy, and I agree that it is potentially both applicable here and quite important.