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+1 - I got off the Chomsky bandwagon decades ago. Language is a loose encoding of thought, nothing more or less. Want proof? Spend some time with ChatGPT4.

• stavros 3y ago
  I don't entirely agreed, as there have been cases where my thought has changed because I learned a new word for something. I started to see that thing everywhere, where before I wouldn't notice it as much, just because I learned the word for it.
  • asah 3y ago
    interesting point - but was it the word? or the concept?
    • stavros 3y ago
      Are the two different? What is a concept without a word?
      • asah 3y ago
        multiple words! :-) I'm arguing that it's an obvious optimization to assign short tokens to commonly used concepts. I'm arguing that many people had the thought before society agreed on a given token for that thought.