I used to think the ability to have deep conversations is an indicator of how “alive” a person is, but now I think that view is wrong. It’s better to look at what the person has done and is doing. Surprisingly there’s little correlation: I often come across people who are very measured in conversation, but turn out to have amazing skills and do amazing things.
Assuming that language is about coordination instead of object level world modeling, why should we be surprised that there’s little correlation between these two very different things?
Because object level world modeling is vastly easier and more unconstrained when you can draw on the sight of other minds, so a live world-modeler who can’t talk to people has something going wrong (whether in them or in the environment).
I used to think the ability to have deep conversations is an indicator of how “alive” a person is, but now I think that view is wrong. It’s better to look at what the person has done and is doing. Surprisingly there’s little correlation: I often come across people who are very measured in conversation, but turn out to have amazing skills and do amazing things.
Assuming that language is about coordination instead of object level world modeling, why should we be surprised that there’s little correlation between these two very different things?
Because object level world modeling is vastly easier and more unconstrained when you can draw on the sight of other minds, so a live world-modeler who can’t talk to people has something going wrong (whether in them or in the environment).