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>>mef+(OP)
I have a degree in linguistics. We were taught Chomsky’s theories of linguistics, but also taught that they were not true. (I don’t want to say what university it was since this was 25 years ago and for all I know that linguistics department no longer teaches against Chomsky). The end result is I don’t take anything Chomsky says seriously. So, it is difficult for me to engage with Chomsky’s ideas.

>>irrati+y71
I'm rather confused by this statement. I've read a number of Chomsky pieces and have listened to him speak a number of times. To say his theories were all "not true" seems, to an extent, almost impossible.

Care to expand on how his theories can be taught in such a binary way?

>>windex+881
GP may be referring to the idea that language is innate like an organ in the body/brain. The Kingdom of Speech by Tom Wolfe is a great read exploring Chomsky and other thinkers in this realm. It would have been great to see what he thought of LLMs too.