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Geoffrey Hinton demolishes Noam Chomsky’s life’s work

calls him out by name, 5:10-6:20, says his theory of innate ...
Cerise Lay
  07/26/25
How does he destroy it he doesn’t even address it. He ...
chestnut public bath
  07/27/25
jew
beta prole library
  07/27/25
he straight up says anyone who thinks language is innate is ...
Cerise Lay
  07/27/25
i was hoping for a bit more explanation as to why Chomsky is...
Buff galvanic travel guidebook
  07/27/25
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chestnut public bath
  07/27/25
altho it did remind me of that observation that scientific p...
Buff galvanic travel guidebook
  07/27/25
At this point I don’t think the neural net guys are tr...
Cerise Lay
  07/27/25
...
Thirsty University Old Irish Cottage
  07/27/25
The fact linguists were never able to build anything remotel...
irradiated locale
  07/27/25
..except linguistics is a core part of most AI systems, sinc...
razzle-dazzle nofapping hominid
  07/27/25
linguistics is absolutely not a core part of modern AI syste...
irradiated locale
  07/27/25
Uhh if you ask ChatGPT itself if it uses any concepts or the...
razzle-dazzle nofapping hominid
  07/27/25
ChatGPT knows about linguistics because it has read everythi...
irradiated locale
  07/27/25
explain your last sentence
Cerise Lay
  07/27/25
there is no evidence of specialized symbol circuitry in the ...
irradiated locale
  07/28/25
"linguists" is a very broad category. lots of ling...
Thirsty University Old Irish Cottage
  07/27/25
nobody would have ever known who chomsky was or given creden...
Thirsty University Old Irish Cottage
  07/27/25
...
beta prole library
  07/27/25
this is wrong. when you do as much scholarly output from MIT...
Cerise Lay
  07/28/25
Date: July 28th, 2025 5:10 PM Author: ,.,.,.,.,.,.,..,:,,:,...
beta prole library
  07/28/25
Did you feel that reply wasn’t relevant to the thread ...
Cerise Lay
  07/28/25
dumb question
beta prole library
  07/28/25
"He was interviewed by CBS news one time in 1961. He wa...
Harsh drunken location
  07/28/25
No shit. He used to claim the media was controlled by "...
Harsh drunken location
  07/28/25
SHOCKING DISCOVERY: CIA hack installed as an "acadmemic...
Harsh drunken location
  07/28/25


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Date: July 26th, 2025 11:53 PM
Author: Cerise Lay

calls him out by name, 5:10-6:20, says his theory of innate grammar is just stupid and anyone who buys into it is part of a cult

https://youtu.be/IkdziSLYzHw?si=PYcDdrX3Qm8KB07c

who is right?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5755078&forum_id=2],#49134006)



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Date: July 27th, 2025 12:05 AM
Author: chestnut public bath

How does he destroy it he doesn’t even address it. He just says Chomsky’s theory of universal grammar is clearly wrong and behavioralism is clearly right

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5755078&forum_id=2],#49134015)



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Date: July 27th, 2025 12:08 AM
Author: beta prole library

jew

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5755078&forum_id=2],#49134018)



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Date: July 27th, 2025 2:35 AM
Author: Cerise Lay

he straight up says anyone who thinks language is innate is both stupid and part of a cult

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5755078&forum_id=2],#49134102)



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Date: July 27th, 2025 6:27 AM
Author: Buff galvanic travel guidebook

i was hoping for a bit more explanation as to why Chomsky is wrong.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5755078&forum_id=2],#49134160)



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Date: July 27th, 2025 7:09 AM
Author: chestnut public bath



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5755078&forum_id=2],#49134181)



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Date: July 27th, 2025 7:52 AM
Author: Buff galvanic travel guidebook

altho it did remind me of that observation that scientific paradigms rarely shift by persuasion and mostly shift by the older view literally aging and dying out. (Chomsky's still alive, apparently. holy shit.)

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5755078&forum_id=2],#49134210)



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Date: July 27th, 2025 10:04 AM
Author: Cerise Lay

At this point I don’t think the neural net guys are trying to persuade them as much as they are just publicly dunking on them. These guys built an LLM based on their understanding of what language is and it works. Hard to argue with results.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5755078&forum_id=2],#49134352)



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Date: July 27th, 2025 11:55 AM
Author: Thirsty University Old Irish Cottage



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5755078&forum_id=2],#49134547)



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Date: July 27th, 2025 12:11 AM
Author: irradiated locale

The fact linguists were never able to build anything remotely as capable as ChatGPT (even in narrow domains like translation) should do a lot to diminish their credibility compared to ML people. Why should we believe anything they say? The biology aligns with connectionism too.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5755078&forum_id=2],#49134026)



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Date: July 27th, 2025 8:35 AM
Author: razzle-dazzle nofapping hominid

..except linguistics is a core part of most AI systems, since its theories and concepts are used to parse text, construct sentences with proper grammar, etc. Also Chomsky himself predicted that the computationally-intense techniques of what eventually came to be known as ML/AI would be the only way to handle problems like translation because linguistics and science in general lack any fundamental understanding of how thought works. So maybe we should listen to what they have to say.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5755078&forum_id=2],#49134250)



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Date: July 27th, 2025 3:10 PM
Author: irradiated locale

linguistics is absolutely not a core part of modern AI systems. they dispensed with linguistic theories and trained powerful function approximators to learn to predict the next token. everything that comes out of it is an emergent property built on data and learning.

"also Chomsky himself predicted that the computationally-intense techniques of what eventually came to be known as ML/AI would be the only way to handle problems like translation because linguistics and science in general lack any fundamental understanding of how thought works."

link?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5755078&forum_id=2],#49135159)



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Date: July 27th, 2025 5:00 PM
Author: razzle-dazzle nofapping hominid

Uhh if you ask ChatGPT itself if it uses any concepts or theories from linguistics I'm sure it'll disagree with what you just wrote

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BZB5oVSRmKQ

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5755078&forum_id=2],#49135404)



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Date: July 27th, 2025 5:36 PM
Author: irradiated locale

ChatGPT knows about linguistics because it has read everything, but it wasn't programmed using linguistic knowledge. it's a decoder only transformer that maps vector representations of text segments to a vector representation of the next text segment. there's nothing resembling linguistics inside its operating mechanisms.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5755078&forum_id=2],#49135469)



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Date: July 27th, 2025 11:47 AM
Author: Cerise Lay

explain your last sentence

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5755078&forum_id=2],#49134537)



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Date: July 28th, 2025 5:45 PM
Author: irradiated locale

there is no evidence of specialized symbol circuitry in the brain. language representation occurs in the neocortex, which is anatomically very uniform and it appears to learn based on general pattern recognizers that wire up through learning. to the extent brains use symbols, they are learned patterns built out of synapses.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5755078&forum_id=2],#49138359)



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Date: July 27th, 2025 11:54 AM
Author: Thirsty University Old Irish Cottage

"linguists" is a very broad category. lots of linguists have figured out very useful and cr stuff, like cucumbers said

in general though yeah Liberal Artists are Frauds

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5755078&forum_id=2],#49134546)



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Date: July 27th, 2025 11:56 AM
Author: Thirsty University Old Irish Cottage

nobody would have ever known who chomsky was or given credence to any of his "theories" if he wasn't a leftist jew

many such cases

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5755078&forum_id=2],#49134549)



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Date: July 27th, 2025 12:13 PM
Author: beta prole library



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5755078&forum_id=2],#49134581)



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Date: July 28th, 2025 5:08 PM
Author: Cerise Lay

this is wrong. when you do as much scholarly output from MIT as he has done it tends to have an impact irrespective of political beliefs, and he was famous for his work in linguistics before anyone knew his politics

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5755078&forum_id=2],#49138258)



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Date: July 28th, 2025 5:28 PM
Author: beta prole library

Date: July 28th, 2025 5:10 PM

Author: ,.,.,.,.,.,.,..,:,,:,,.,:::,.,,.,:.,,.:.,:.,:.::,.

one of my favorite things to do is watch porn and see if I can bust without touching, which is doable but harder than it sounds

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5755622&forum_id=2#49138262)

also linguistics is a bullshit field for low iq jew grinders to rent seek because philology got shitcanned as a result of the holocaust, which never happened (but should have) also jews were too dumb for that discipline anyway

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5755078&forum_id=2],#49138316)



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Date: July 28th, 2025 5:35 PM
Author: Cerise Lay

Did you feel that reply wasn’t relevant to the thread topic or something?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5755078&forum_id=2],#49138334)



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Date: July 28th, 2025 6:47 PM
Author: beta prole library

dumb question

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5755078&forum_id=2],#49138473)



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Date: July 28th, 2025 7:36 PM
Author: Harsh drunken location

"He was interviewed by CBS news one time in 1961. He was already famous."

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5755078&forum_id=2],#49138628)



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Date: July 28th, 2025 6:51 PM
Author: Harsh drunken location

No shit. He used to claim the media was controlled by "advertisers." He said the WSJ is more honest than the NYT because they can't get away with lying to their subscribers.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5755078&forum_id=2],#49138484)



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Date: July 28th, 2025 7:40 PM
Author: Harsh drunken location

SHOCKING DISCOVERY: CIA hack installed as an "acadmemic" at MIT caused other academics to waste time debunking his shitty theories.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5755078&forum_id=2],#49138645)