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[Karl Auer]

On Sun, 2019-08-04 at 10:47 +1000, JLWhitaker wrote:
> Exactly. I replied to the friend who sent the link to me that relying
> on voice input is nuts.

It is now. That doesn't mean it can never be. We should not discard a
technology because it is rough now. But likewise we shouldn't trust it
while it is still rough - or rather we should know its limits and use
it within them.

> I can't imagine thought commands being better fidelity.

You know better than to use the argument from personal incredulity :-)

Thought commands literally direct everything we do. Already. They put
one foot in front of the other, they decide which words to say, they
decide which key to press.

>  What thought is going to input? Hey, your ass looks REALLY fat in
> that!

How come your mouth doesn't do that? Because you direct it, with your
thoughts, to output the correct, desired statements. It's just an
output peripheral for your thinking, used when you choose to use it and
clamped shut when you don't.

So we have working, billion-year-old actual proof that thought control
works just fine :-)

Regards, K.

PS: Please assume all the bad jokes about mistyping, Trumpian tweets
and spoken gaffes and tripping over one's own feet have been duly made.
They don't change the argument.

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