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Most people can only listen to and truly understand one conversation at a time.

Richard Socher · Humanity’s Last Invention — Richard Socher of Recursive · 14 Sep 2026

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“parallel but neither will our tongues and mouths work to have multiple like streams in parallel neither can we understand some women slightly better at like multitasking than some men but like most people can only listen to one conversation and truly understand it and there's no way that like like in terms of communication intelligence a true upper bound is one in terms of how many like knowledge how many sequences of communication could you”
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Most people can only listen to and truly understand one conversation at a time. · Savlar