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Human communication is constrained by the limited number of terms people can comprehend and retain in long-term memory; people’s active vocabularies are often smaller than their passive vocabularies.
Richard Socher · Humanity’s Last Invention — Richard Socher of Recursive · 14 Sept 2026
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“you think also not just visual but sort of perception intelligence just like because it doesn't have to be just what we can see it can be again wider range of electromagnetic frequencies then you have language intelligence which actually recently changed to more communication intelligence because it's more like language has all these different anthropic bounds humans can only comprehend and know so many terms in our long-term memory right our vocabularies”
“are somewhat restricted and the active ones are often even smaller than the passive vocabularies of things you can understand then language is ridiculously inefficient when it comes to trans basically communicating different types of information and transporting sort of different bits like human language is serial obviously another bound on communication intelligence would be to communicate in parallel”Play from 1:12:46Report a misattribution
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