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HungryHobo comments on Could a digital intelligence be bad at math? - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: HungryHobo 21 January 2016 04:42:59PM 0 points [-]

It has only been in recent generations that arithmetic involving numbers of more than 2 or 3 digits has mattered to peoples wellbeing and survival. I doubt our brains are terribly well wired up for large numbers.