Phil Goetz was not saying that all languages have the word “the.” He said that the word “the” is something every ENGLISH document has in common. His criticism is that this does not mean that Hamlet is more similar to an English restaurant menu than an English novel is to a Russian novel. Likewise, Eliezer’s argument does not show that we are more like petunias then like an AI.
Phil Goetz was not saying that all languages have the word “the.” He said that the word “the” is something every ENGLISH document has in common. His criticism is that this does not mean that Hamlet is more similar to an English restaurant menu than an English novel is to a Russian novel. Likewise, Eliezer’s argument does not show that we are more like petunias then like an AI.