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Comment author: Capla 21 November 2014 09:48:19PM *  1 point [-]

and you can't see the forest if you mind sees every tree.

Why not? I'd just ask to see every tree and the forest. Transcending current human limitation is exactly what the singularity is god for.

Comment author: Emile 22 November 2014 01:59:38PM 1 point [-]

exactly what the singularity is god for

... I'm not sure whether that is a misspelling ... (Freudian slip?)

Comment author: Capla 22 November 2014 09:20:22PM 0 points [-]

It was a misspelling, but I decided to keep it.

Comment author: ChristianKl 22 November 2014 12:57:35PM *  0 points [-]

You don't. Those humans who have something approaching eidetic memory can't do pattern matching very well.

Human memory doesn't work like computer memory. The brain makes tradeoffs between being able to remember individual pieces of information and abstractions of them.

See my stackexchange post.

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