I say no. Language is the medium that enabled the sudden emergence of human ultra sociality.
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How narrowly are we defining language here? General Case - I gather language is very important Add in artificial telepathy and things get ya know.. weird
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In Hollywood movies all the more advanced aliens seem to be that way - already today speaking to someone on the phone seems to be more of an irritation than anything else. That said I think writing will go first - will be like calligraphy soon.
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Even better. 'My robot assistant will talk to your robot assistant."
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Watching my son navigate interfaces like YouTube and Minecraft definitely opened my eyes to that. But I think you discount the power of sound/symbol correspondence. We might get more hieroglyphic (
𓀑 <3) but not illiterate.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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I find such a possibility truly strange. Even in a post-verbal society, I find it hard to get to post-language. Like trying to communicate the feeling of wetness without the concept of a liquid. Short of triggering synapses directly, and synaptic shapes are not universal
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Only if google's
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Neal Stephenson's essay "In the beginning... was the command line" points in this direction, using the CLI -> GUI computing transition as an example of a word-based culture moving towards one that gives 'the gist' while hiding complexitypic.twitter.com/8MujPaz7gh
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the japanese were, of course, deprived of their military after WWII, which i think goes some way towards explaining the cuteness pivot
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