[clug] Sarcasm detection

Nemo Maelstrom Thorx clug at nemo.house.cx
Fri May 28 00:14:36 MDT 2010


On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 02:43:35PM +1000, Daniel Pittman did utter:
> 
> 
> Instant communication like IM or the telephone has all the drawbacks of that
> loss of information *and* all the drawbacks of the expectation of instant
> response, making it the worst option.

otoh, instant feedback is usually the best when it comes to resolving
misinterpretation, so it's not all bad. I don't think IM/IRC is any
better or worse than email in this regard for that very reason. 

Telephone has vocal inflections - it carries ALOT more data than pure
text IM/IRC and is correspondingly leaps and bounds better than
pure-text of any form. 

SMS is the worst imho, since it combines limited length, the clumsy
interface of most phones, and a cost which tends to limit the
clarifications/response likelihood that you might get in any other medium

and then there is the hand-written letter has a personalised charm too,
but terrible latency... 



quick. someone call up that xkcd guy and get him to graph all this ;)


.../Nemo

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