Hehe :-D
Maybe Linas means incompressible things.
Nil
On 03/17/2018 05:34 PM, Linas Vepstas wrote:
On Sat, Mar 17, 2018 at 10:56 PM, Ben Goertzel <[email protected]
<mailto:[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] <mailto:[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] <mailto:[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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