In the discourse of topic A, words can signify entire conversations like verbal memory shortcuts that allow us to think faster and more deeply together. Lately I’ve been trying to imagine a future where humans can save absurd amounts of info in the smallest of utterances. Meme mass to phonetic value — 10,000 to 1.

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Really cool, and new to me. Thanks for sharing! Many of these imagined hyper languages break down given our biological constraints, or they’re optimizing for the wrong thing. But as thought experiments, they’re useful to imagine how language can be improved for X— speed, depth, universality, etc

Kind of reminds me of Leibniz project for the “perfect language” based on mapping all intellectual concepts to prime numbers, such that the compositional relationships between the prime numbers also mapped to the relationships between the concepts