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Oh, no way. The information conveyed through human language is an abysmal drip compared to the actual number of letters used to spell it out.

Even without knowing anything semantic, compression algorithms can squeeze text down to much fewer bits. And both of our minds together have a shared dictionary of concepts and thoughts gzip doesn't have access to. The actual number of bits conveyed is rather low.




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