Nick_Tarleton comments on Collective Apathy and the Internet - Less Wrong

29 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 14 April 2009 12:02AM

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Comment author: Nick_Tarleton 14 April 2009 08:44:10PM *  2 points [-]

Good idea, but it'll be a lot more than 5 years until telecommunications can come close to the richness of face-to-face contact. (Just one example.) Probably more important still is the difference between having to set up a conversation vs. having people constantly at hand, feeling like they're at hand, and being constantly available yourself.