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Human working-memory limits contribute to relatively simple sentences, which average about 40 words.

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

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“parallel sort of process right then of course you have like how long are sentences we only have so much in our working memory and hence language human language has these fairly simple sentences with maybe 40 words or so on average for a sentence that is also not a an upper bound that makes any sense to an AI and then yeah like I can go on and on and on each of these”
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