[sebzim4500]

Blind kids don't though, and they still end up being smarter than GPT-4

[eru]

They still take in a lot of sensory data, eg related to touch and proprioception.

[sebzim4500]

True but surely that doesn't come to terabytes of data

[eru]

I would expect similar amount of data (or more) compared to usual visual inputs.

After all, your skin is a pretty big organ. And your sense of balance and proprioception in all the joints is quiet a few different channels and pretty high temporal resolution.