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by gjygj 1661 days ago
The word "huge" carefully avoid quantifying the amount of information.

Imagine a conversation with zero non-words information (a transcript).

Now one with zero words (mime game) .

Which one conveys more information?

2 comments

If you're going to make a reductionist argument like this, then consider the byte size of a text transcript versus the byte size of an audio recording of the same speech act. The latter will be orders of magnitude larger. Thus it strictly contains much more information.
That depends on the conversations.

Sometimes you can say far more with a single look than you can with mere words.