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		suddenlybananas 8 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Extracting memorized pieces of books from open-wei... On what basis do you say that it is like how we memorize when we read? I don't know about you, but it's extraordinarily difficult to memorise an entire book.

kbelder 8 months ago | [–]

But when someone prompts you with a paragraph from a book you read, and asks you to guess the next sentence?

Still tough, but nowhere near as hard as memorizing a whole book. And far easier to come up with something at least plausible.

Ygg2 8 months ago | [–]

It's even weirder when someone says banana and you quote the entire 1984.

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