Chomsky, of all people? Chomsky rose to fame by attacking BF Skinner’s book “Verbal Behavior”. Which is the book that made exactly the case you’re making now, o

Chomsky, of all people? Chomsky rose to fame by attacking BF Skinner’s book “Verbal Behavior”. Which is the book that made exactly the case you’re making now, only some 60 years ago. Skinner would marvel at today’s LLMs. They are the most elegant proof that intelligence is not just shaped by external contingencies, but that it is identical with those contingencies.