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Well, although he’s wrong on his grammar research he still has his politics to fall back on. < /s>
“science of language”
I think I see the problem.
Can you imagine racking your brain for 8+ years on all that convoluted language/linguistics bullcrap. Most of which is made up or fantasy and meaningless. This field is advanced enough. Just leave it be.
While STEM sciences can advance the human race. Has experiments that you must allow others to try and replicate. Or else you are a faker.
Hopefully, that worthless scumbag isn’t consuming perfectly useful oxygen anymore.
Or should I say, Are you interested in linguistics?
Chomsky certainly isn't the first scientist to go apesh*t nuts when he wanders from his lane - that's almost a cliche in popular culture. But occasionally the old goat finds an acorn:
The human mind is not, like ChatGPT and its ilk, a lumbering statistical engine for pattern matching, gorging on hundreds of terabytes of data and extrapolating the most likely conversational response or most probable answer to a scientific question. On the contrary, the human mind is a surprisingly efficient and even elegant system that operates with small amounts of information; it seeks not to infer brute correlations among data points but to create explanations...”
Let’s stop calling it ‘Artificial Intelligence’ then and call it for what it is and makes ‘plagiarism software’ because ‘It doesn’t create anything, but copies existing works, of existing artists, modifying them enough to escape copyright laws...
Dr. Noam Chomsky et al, New York Times, March 8, 2023
I dabble in linguistics, but outside of academia. I know nothing about Chomsky’s work because I’ve never had a reason to use it.
Bill Labov, on the other hand, who was also at U Penn before he passed away in 2024, did some absolutely amazing work that I use all the time:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Labov
He used to be a chemical engineer, and he brought a very scientific approach to dialectology that involved recording people and analyzing the sounds to capture language in motion. Studied the Philadelphia dialect in excruciating detail, which was great for me because that’s what I wanted to study.
And I don’t know anything Chomsky did that is half as useful as this...a map of North American English.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Atlas_of_North_American_English
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It doesn’t happen to people who get useful degrees.
will am idiot be ablr to understand this, brcause it soumds interesting
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