[ExI] Communications a Moore's Law Phenomenon?

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On Wed, 13 Mar 2024, Mike Dougherty via extropy-chat wrote:

> On Wed, Mar 13, 2024, 12:50 PM Kelly Anderson via extropy-chat <extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
>
>       going. So what happens then? I postulate that AIs will communicate on
>       our behalf, and that this will reduce the amount of time we actually
>       spend talking to each other directly. On this list, in fact, I've seen
>       a number of us post AI missives already. I've done it myself. So, at
>       some point, we'll be communicating with so many people, so often, that
>       we won't even know it's happening, except in some sort of vague way...
>       like a CEO having an executive secretary.
>       [Snip]
>       This one was written without that assistance. Is it because you guys
>       aren't important enough? Or is it because I deem you so important that
>       you get the personalized treatment?
> 
> 
> I have also imagined that our AI exo-self will act as agents on our behalf at volumes and speeds that we currently cannot
> comprehend. 
> 
> I find myself more and more simply not commenting on facebook's content - is it because the content is garbage? Perhaps some.  Is it
> because bad faith actors will pounce on the least important words while also missing my point completely? Yup, that too.  So yeah,
> there's another reason we won't actually "talk" directly to each other: talking is more work effort than the reward.
> 
> fwiw: if it's clear (as etiquette seems to have organically established) that the OP couldn't be bothered to write, I see no reason
> we (the intended audience) should be bothered to read.  So maybe your unaugmented self is signalling safety and trust for this
> community by investing the time/effort to write because you intend for us to read you.  
>

My take on it is probably twofold. First how much do I care about the
person writing, and second, how much do I care about the topic of
discussion.

The less I care about the person, the less attention the message will
get in what ever channel it might come through. And likewise, the less I
care about the subject, the less attention the message gets.

This is then applied within three circles, my private world, business
world and the rest.

In terms of a potential AI communicating for us, I see it as a firewall
blocking/dealing with annoying things such as salesmen, booking
meetings, booking travel, reservations, getting through to support via
phone/chats etc.

Likewise I see these recipients to have their own AI:s, so we'd have
AI:s negotiating/booking times with teach other, and we would only end
up seeing the result.

When it comes to the amount of messages I have two strategies for
dealing with the quantity:

1. Carefully choosing my channels and not exposing my email address
where it is not supposed to be.

2. Automated sorting and replying to some emails.

I'm no super user, but my methods were able to successfully deal with
250-300 emails per day during my peak in the global IT industry.

Best regards, 
Daniel