On Sat, Mar 17, 2018 at 10:56 PM, Ben Goertzel <[email protected]> wrote:

> This thread has gone a weird-ass direction...
>
> Of course an adult human knows way more than 10K things but I don't
>

Oh come on Ben. Of course a single human cannot know that much. That's an
absurdity.  Humans are stupid.

--linas


> even have time just now to scroll up and see how the conversation got
> here !!!
>
> On Sat, Mar 17, 2018 at 10:30 PM, Linas Vepstas <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> > ??
> >
> > I'm pretty sure I know a lot more than 10000 words. That is not at all
> > comparable to knowing 10000 things. Knowing 20000 words is comparable to
> > knowing maybe 500 things. How, exactly, are you measuring knowledge?
> >
> > --linas
> >
> > On Sat, Mar 17, 2018 at 3:47 PM, Alexey Potapov <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> No human can remember 10000 of anything whatsoever. The human brain is
> >>> just simply not that big.
> >>
> >>
> >> Please, stop making such stupid claims. This is so obviously wrong that
> >> I'm not sure if there is any sense to argue. "No human", "10000 of
> >> anything", "not that big"??? I will not refer to eidetic memory
> possessed
> >> also by some chess players... Just consider words. Normally, people use
> few
> >> thousands words, but writers use several tens thousands. Chinese
> writers can
> >> use more than 10000. Polyglots can speak more than 10 languages up to
> (or
> >> more than) 1000 in which. Not sure how exactly much foreign words they
> can
> >> remember, but even if it is just several thousands, it doesn't make a
> >> principal difference. So, can't humans remember 10000 words?..
> >
> >
> >
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