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Comment author: hyporational 10 December 2013 01:20:44PM 0 points [-]

And measured by total duration of recital of content memorized, I doubt we have that much larger stores of information considered important worth memorizing.

How would you estimate something like that? Who's we? What kinds of people are you comparing?

Comment author: VAuroch 10 December 2013 11:15:34PM -1 points [-]

I'm comparing a modern generalist to Ancient Greek professional thing-knowers, which is to say their court bards, who memorized weeks length of poetry and song.

Now that I think more carefully, I agree that any estimation is probably far off the mark.

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