Morendil comments on Levels of communication - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Morendil 24 March 2010 12:44:40PM 3 points [-]

Conversation differs from argument in more ways than just being about "socialization" rather than being about facts.

For instance, you can think of conversation as a process of sending out "probes" that are echoed in modified form by your interlocutors; the distortions reveal something about the mind that did the echoing.