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Are you familiar with Pinker’s research presented in book The Language Instinct? > language enables intelligence In his research, he argues that it’s the othe
by jrsdav 3y ago
Are you familiar with Pinker’s research presented in book The Language Instinct?
> language enables intelligence
In his research, he argues that it’s the other way around; we have an innate intelligence for acquiring language.
To put it another way, language has made us more knowledgeable (because it’s a great mechanism for building and transferring context), but intelligence or aptitude for language was present before we developed languages.
Does this align with how your views were reshaped post LLMs?
- aastronaut 3y agoi think > language enables intelligence was just a poor choice of words here. i understood GP as "the structure of a language influences its speakers' worldview or cognition, and thus people's perceptions are relative to their spoken language"[0] [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linguistic_relativity https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linguistic_relativity