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1. lanfeu+f6[view] [source] 2025-05-25 17:56:36
>>mef+(OP)
I'm noticing that leftists overwhelmingly toe the same line on AI skepticism, which suggests to me an ideological motivation.
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2. thomas+AU[view] [source] 2025-05-26 00:26:28
>>lanfeu+f6
Chomsky's problem here has nothing to do with his politics, but unfortunately a lot to do with his long-held position in the Nature/Nurture debate - a position that is undermined by the ability of LLMs to learn language without hardcoded grammatical rules:

  Chomsky introduced his theory of language acquisition, according to which children have an inborn quality of being biologically encoded with a universal grammar
https://psychologywriting.com/skinner-and-chomsky-on-nature-...
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