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> You'd expect someone who can read/understand proofs to be able to spot a a flow in the logic that it takes longer than 1 week for chicks to turn into chickens
by aleph_minus_one 2y ago
> You'd expect someone who can read/understand proofs to be able to spot a a flow in the logic that it takes longer than 1 week for chicks to turn into chickens.
Rather, I'd assume that someone who is capable of spotting the flow in the logic has a decent knowledge of the English language (in this case referring to the difference in meaning between "chick" and "chicken").
Many people who are good mathematicians (i.e. capable of "reading/understanding proofs" as you expressed it) are not native English speakers or have a great L2 level of English.
- Viliam1234 2y agoBut I was told that humans have this thing called "general intelligence", which means they should be capable to do both math and English! If an AI made a similar mistake, people would laugh at it.
- aleph_minus_one 2y ago> But I was told that humans have this thing called "general intelligence", which means they should be capable to do both math and English! You confuse "intelligence" with "knowledge". To keep to your example: there exist quite a lot of highly intelligent people on earth who don't or barely know English.
- david-gpu 2y agoSome native English speakers might still question that statement subconsciously, so let me make it clearer for them: there are many highly intelligent people in the world who don't speak the Rarámuri language.
- JCharante 2y agoThat’s also true and a HUGE problem when companies are hiring non native English speakers to work on English datasets.