Or for an example here, does anyone remember Daniel_Burfoot’s brilliant epiphany about how to do AI the right way, and my asshole-ish criticisms thereof?
Your criticisms there were firm but not all that asshole-ish and they generated good karma for you. But apropos of that:
there are grammatical errors that children never make in any language
Have you read Pullum’s 2002 article Empirical assessment of stimulus poverty arguments? That seems to me to be a crushing refutation (asshole-ish refutation?) of the usual Chomskyan Poverty of Stimulus argument. Which is not to say that a good POS argument isn’t possible but I haven’t seen one yet.
Your criticisms there were firm but not all that asshole-ish and they generated good karma for you. But apropos of that:
Have you read Pullum’s 2002 article Empirical assessment of stimulus poverty arguments? That seems to me to be a crushing refutation (asshole-ish refutation?) of the usual Chomskyan Poverty of Stimulus argument. Which is not to say that a good POS argument isn’t possible but I haven’t seen one yet.