Re: Iconoclasm (was: Chunking intelligence functions)

From: Eliezer S. Yudkowsky (sentience@pobox.com)
Date: Thu May 10 2001 - 18:38:35 MDT


"J. R. Molloy" wrote:
>
> From: "Eliezer S. Yudkowsky" <sentience@pobox.com>
> > Like I said, I've heard about the results debunking Dvorak.
>
> Audio/video inputs far surpass plain keyboard inputs.
> How long do you think it will take to make keyboards obsolete?

I don't know that A/V inputs surpass keyboard inputs. I've never used
one. I do know that the "feel" of typing and speech is different -
coding, in particular, might require keyboarding, unless the language was
specially designed to be codeable via speech recognition.

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Eliezer S. Yudkowsky http://singinst.org/
Research Fellow, Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence



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