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by doug_durham 672 days ago
Disagree. There are different use cases for diagrams. The first is communication. My people are poor at drawing diagrams. That means our speech in the medium is limited. Tools like the expand our ability to communicate. A second use case is artistic expression. I can't imagine why you would use such a tool for artistic expression. Nothing is being lost here.
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I never said that THIS tool would replace artistic expression. But the spirit of it and all of its implications will very likely result in tools that will replace it. One cannot pick and choose when it comes to technology -- the prisoner's dilemma will result in a net loss of human expression.