re: #167 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

There are some parallels here with my criticism of Blogginheads.

Language is important to us. It is central to our being. Our conscious self is a language machine.

So we like to talk, and for those of us who can write, we like to write.

Whether it is a past-his-prime academic on Blogginheads or a chatbot run by a computer, we just want to converse. We not only want to talk but we want to talk to something.

We are monkeys, chattering away.

Con-men have their confidence jobs because they talk confidence. C.f. Trump and Smarmy.

Psychotherapy usually involves talking. A lot of talking.

Does it matter if the therapist is a computer? I guess that is the debate. Whether it should be a debate is yet another debate.

When a Catholic goes to confession, it is the sinner who does the talking, or most of it, I am led to believe (not been there myself.)

Is the sinner unburdened by the body across the partition who is simply there listening? Or is it the act of talking by the sinner that unburdens the latter?

Back to Blogginheads: you could have two chatbots bouncing off each other, and the conversations would be no less impactful, and maybe more impactful (and for sure more eloquent and succinct) than two old white guys lamenting the world is changing.

Welcome to the future.