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I disagree with this take because you grok English not only from the text you read, but also from the context of physical world around you. And that context is enormous: assuming 8000x8000x2 vision with 3 color 1 byte channels at 24fps without compression, you get 3e+17 bytes (300 petabytes) of data along with your reading per year.


Blind children can learn english fine though. And there are areas highly unmaterial (mathematics) which people still reason about.


You ignored the point. I only brought sight as an example (though, admittedly, it is the largest data inflow).


Humans have to learn sight while learning speech though. I don't mean knowing that this is a dog, I mean making sense of noisy vision inputs.


So what? There's no indication that one hinders the other much, and may even improve generalization.




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