Re: forward masking (was: Re: Hugos)

From: Anders Sandberg (asa@nada.kth.se)
Date: Mon Dec 18 2000 - 08:40:34 MST


KPJ <kpj@sics.se> writes:

> It appears as if Michael M. Butler <butler@comp-lib.org> wrote on AI language:
> |
> |As long as they're not using Heinlein's "Speedtalk" from the story
> |_Gulf_. :)
>
> How so? Would not humans also enjoy a CPU and/or communication
> speed increase?

I doubt it would be an increase due to the loss of error correcting
redundancy: speedtalk would be harder to understand in a noisy
(i.e. real) environment, and learning the combinations would not be
easier than learning any other language (but likely have less
affordances to fit with human language wetware).

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