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Comment author: gwern 14 June 2010 05:45:37PM 9 points [-]

most people, while engaging in real-time conversations, do not feel this discomfort of having insufficient time and resources to verify the other participant's claims (or for that matter, to make sure that one's own speech is not erroneous).

Conversation is not about information.</Hanson>

Comment author: Lightwave 16 June 2010 11:05:36AM *  3 points [-]

Conversation is not only/mostly about information. FTFY

Comment author: nazgulnarsil 15 June 2010 04:33:38AM 2 points [-]

this relates back to the what was mentioned higher up about people having differing goals for their conversation. the default goal is to strengthen, weaken, or confirm status positions. non-status information is often considered incidental. also note that hardly anyone is conscious of this.

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