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As AI is a maximalist (and extraordinarily expensive) disproof of language as a coordinating, accurate communication system, Trump's economic policies are a dis
by DrierCycle 11mo ago
As AI is a maximalist (and extraordinarily expensive) disproof of language as a coordinating, accurate communication system, Trump's economic policies are a disproof of economic 'science' and revelation it's merely enactive game-theory.
- throwaway808081 11mo ago“ Spoken with neither anything beyond lay observation of linguistics nor economics.”
- DrierCycle 11mo ago“I think there are a few strands of intuition and confusions that have led people to believe very strongly that language is the medium of thought,” she says. “But when they are pulled apart thread by thread, they don’t really hold up to empirical scrutiny.” E Fedorenko comma https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262049658/blunt-instrument/ https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262049658/blunt-instrument/