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Re:Has humanity reached ‘peak intelligence’? by maestrokuro on Sunday December 22, 2019 @03:06PM (#21859309)
I feel like there's quite a lot scope for engineering the levels of intelligence within a given population. To my knowledge, most languages spoken throughout the world reached their current forms naturally, without any kind of deliberate influence by their speakers. What if, however, a language was actively designed to be as information dense as possible? What effect would it have on the average intelligence of a population in which said language was gradually introduced to the point where children were raised speaking it?
Re:Has humanity reached ‘peak intelligence’? by mood_lines on Monday December 23, 2019 @11:42AM (#21864834)
The population would likely speak it slower to compensate. Information density and speech rate are inversely correlated, with an average information rate around 39 bits/second. https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/5/9/eaaw2594
Re:Has humanity reached ‘peak intelligence’? by justinclift on Monday December 23, 2019 @07:44AM (#21863267)
> What if, however, a language was actively designed to be as information dense as possible?

Perhaps sound wouldn't be the right medium to carry it?

Or alternatively, perhaps only those with <various> enhancements could transmit/receive it?