On 03/17/2018 05:02 PM, Linas Vepstas wrote:
The limit of human knowledge is somewhere near there. Most humans do
not contain more than 10 or 20 books of knowledge; geniuses might get up
to 100 or maybe more. But that's the limit. Figure maybe ten pages per
topic or concept, and that is the limit of how much one person can know
(over a 50-year timespan...)
That guy might not be able to write many books but he sure knows how to
make sushis. How many "things" does he know to be so good at it? How
many incompressible bits?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R2L5IrkQTV0
Nil
--linas
p.s. don't confuse "writing" with "knowing". I've written maybe 1K pages
of math research (or much more??), and honestly, I remember maybe only
10% of what I wrote. The rest I forgot - the formulas, the details. I
remember the general plotline, not the details of the plot, of what I've
written. Simply because I wrote a lot is not the same thing as "knowing"
-- I can't effortlessly repeat that work. It would require lots of new,
hard work.
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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