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I do not believe so. This lack of communication skills is also due to a lack of recognition of the value good communications engenders. An undergraduate business school education pragmatically touches on professional communications, but only as far as how to motivate and control people, not how to effectively communicate - as in a shared synchronization of understanding, which is what professional communications is all about. Colleges of communications teach professional communications as their foundation, before the various media majors one graduates within. The more I look at the levels of communications in general within society, our civilization has not yet recognized how critical communications are to every aspect of life, not just business and careers. Good communications are like fire, capable of destroying and capable of being the foundation greater things are built, and the lack of this recognition amazes me.



the recognition is definitively there, in ppl, but lacking in most organizations esp. industries.

interesting if endeavors with nlp and llm's can help to spread nuance or commodify motivation and control.


Interesting, as that is what my current work is all about: integrating LLMs into ordinary software people use everyday, and those LLMs serve multiple purposes: a) they know the software they are integrated and can offer support in how to use the software, b) a 'psychologist AI' looks at what the user is doing and makes an assessment of how well they understand both the software they are using and the content of their use of the software, that assessment is used to modify the amount of help and the language used when helping, c) both the assessment from b and the content from whatever they are authoring is used to generate an expert in the subject matter of their content, whom is then available in a chat interface with access to rewrite the content the user is authoring upon their request. And d) when a "completed" document is viewed (not in an editor) a slightly different expert is generated based on the context of the document, whom is available for extended Q&A of that document and it's subject.

I'm calling this work 'human comprehension support'.




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