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by enasterosophes 1036 days ago
Not a criticism: this reminds me of Elcor speech in the Mass Effect trilogy, eg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i1PKFo1fYCA

"Plainly, we discovered our vocal expression was not enough to convey the feelings of our conversations to other species."

I never noticed the analogy before between Elcor and written/online communication. Now I'm wondering if it was intended by the game's writers.

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There was a thread not long ago about semantic communication (I presume in code reviews) that touched on this same thing: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37118098
Amazing! It seams so the devs were thinking of this very idea.