No, it’s just me being surprised about how much information conversation can contain (I expected the bandwidth to be far lower, and the benefits mostly to be due to quick feedback loops). Combine that with personal experience of attending bad conferences and lame conversations, and things seem sad. But that’s not the key point.
Really like your post. (Also it’s crazy if true that the conversational upper bound decreases by 1 if people are gossiping, since they have to model the gossip subject.)
Is the implied background claim that conferences are useless, and with this comment, you’re remarking that it’s sunk in how especially sad that is?
Something something about how many words you have if you’re doing in-person communication.
No, it’s just me being surprised about how much information conversation can contain (I expected the bandwidth to be far lower, and the benefits mostly to be due to quick feedback loops). Combine that with personal experience of attending bad conferences and lame conversations, and things seem sad. But that’s not the key point.
Really like your post. (Also it’s crazy if true that the conversational upper bound decreases by 1 if people are gossiping, since they have to model the gossip subject.)