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- He's assuming people go to alternative medicine after real medicine, that assumption might be wrong, but it's not even a main point in his argument. - He tal
by koide 14y ago
- He's assuming people go to alternative medicine after real medicine, that assumption might be wrong, but it's not even a main point in his argument.
- He talks about Linguistics, not NLP, so I don't know what your friends have to do with that part.
- The only thing about conspiracies there is where he says he understands why conspiracy theorists create the theories: to avoid reality becuase reality sucks for them.
- There is no mention of a conspiracy against feminism, only that there is a sexist background in the whole group.
- Also, no conspiracy about neoliberalism, only an argument: If you believe science should be in charge of revealing all reality to us, you should support an environment in which science can thrive with nothing that would take it back, and that is liberal democracy nowadays.
It seems we read a different article. There are lots of worthy discussion points, but lets discuss them, not just vaguely oversimplify or dismiss them.
- andreasvc 14y ago> - He talks about Linguistics, not NLP, so I don't know what your friends have to do with that part. He specifically talks about computational linguistics, which is practically synonymous with NLP (there is a minor difference in connotation--the former is scientific rather than engineering, but it's really very minor).
- koide 14y agoThat's right. After paying more attention to the paragraph in question I'd love the grandparent asking his friends about the new models that are being tried and how are they based on Wittgensteinian pragmatics. I haven't seen any, but I've only been exposed to the applied mainstream of NLP, not to the bleeding edge of the research.
- andreasvc 14y agoI have the impression that Wittgenstein's musings were of an informal, philosophical nature, and that they are difficult to translate to a practical real world application. That doesn't have to mean that he's necessarily wrong, just that for practical work such as in NLP you are forced to make some rather strong assumptions which are actually just wrong, but which allow us to approximate language to an extent where current technology can do something useful with it.
- koide 14y agoPlease correct me if I'm wrong, but current applied NLP is building parse trees and applying probabilistic rules to classification problems. With those two you can indeed build some awesome tools but we are so, so far away from actual language that it hurts.