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by jameshart 3670 days ago
4K of English text is a couple of pages of a novel, enough to describe a character and a situation, maybe an interaction. A good writer can conjure up a whole world in 4K... but probably not a description of an arbitrary 3 and a half minutes of activity.
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That being said, speech is far from the best compression we can ever hope of achieving.