[thomastjeffery]

We spend a lot of time and energy as a species making purposeless semantic arguments. Imagine factoring that out.

Would they be replaced with silence? Probably.

Even so, it would be incredibly useful. We could achieve a higher level of empathy, both as a listener and as a speaker.

All of this is still in the category of "intelligence augmentation"; more specifically, NLP.

I don't think AGI would be hugely more interesting than that. Billions of humans, suddenly able to communicate clearly, would result in most of the utility that people imagine AGI being able to provide.