Language & Linguistics

TagLast edit: 24 Oct 2022 19:46 UTC by Ruby

On the Role of Proto-Languages

adamShimi22 Sep 2024 16:50 UTC

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(epistemologicalfascinations.substack.com)

There Are No Primordial Definitions of Man/Woman

ymeskhout6 Jun 2024 19:30 UTC

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(ymeskhout.substack.com)

Late-talking kid part 3: gestalt language learning

Steven Byrnes17 Oct 2023 2:00 UTC

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[Linkpost] Vague Verbiage in Forecasting

trevor22 Mar 2024 18:05 UTC

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(goodjudgment.com)

Telic intuitions across the sciences

mrcbarbier22 Oct 2022 21:31 UTC

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[Letter] Chinese Quickstart

lsusr1 Dec 2024 6:38 UTC

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SociaLLM: proposal for a language model design for personalised apps, social science, and AI safety research

Roman Leventov19 Dec 2023 16:49 UTC

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Why you should learn sign language

Noah Topper18 Jan 2023 17:03 UTC

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(naivebayes.substack.com)

“You’re the most beautiful girl in the world” and Wittgensteinian Language Games

Chris_Leong20 Apr 2024 14:54 UTC

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Hard Questions Are Language Bugs

George3d64 Sep 2023 14:44 UTC

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(ontologi.cc)

Pronouns are Annoying

ymeskhout18 Sep 2024 13:30 UTC

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(www.ymeskhout.com)

The possible shared Craft of deliberate Lexicogenesis

TsviBT20 May 2023 5:56 UTC

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Want to predict/explain/control the output of GPT-4? Then learn about the world, not about transformers.

Cleo Nardo16 Mar 2023 3:08 UTC

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Learning Written Hindi From Scratch

Morpheus11 Apr 2024 11:13 UTC

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ChatGPT defines 10 concrete terms: generically, for 5- and 11-year-olds, and for a scientist

Bill Benzon11 Apr 2024 20:27 UTC

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Relationships among words, metalingual definition, and interpretability

Bill Benzon7 Jun 2024 19:18 UTC

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How to be an amateur polyglot

arisAlexis8 May 2024 15:08 UTC

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If language is for communication, what does that imply about LLMs?

Bill Benzon12 May 2024 2:55 UTC

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Phonosemantic Duplication

bitcoinssg12 Jun 2024 20:19 UTC

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Debunking the myth of safe AI

henophilia15 Dec 2024 17:44 UTC

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(henophilia.substack.com)

Toward a Human Hybrid Language for Enhanced Human-Machine Communication: Addressing the AI Alignment Problem

Andndn Dheudnd14 Aug 2024 22:19 UTC

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Levels of Thought: from Points to Fields

HNX2 Dec 2024 20:25 UTC

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Inching “Kubla Khan” and GPT into the same intellectual framework @ 3 Quarks Daily

Bill Benzon28 Mar 2023 19:50 UTC

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Natural language alignment

Jacy Reese Anthis12 Apr 2023 19:02 UTC

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Book Review: Orality and Literacy: The Technologizing of the Word

Fergus Fettes28 Oct 2023 20:12 UTC

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What’s going on? LLMs and IS-A sentences

Bill Benzon8 Nov 2023 16:58 UTC

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Scott Alexander is wrong about slurs

[deactivated]21 Nov 2023 8:43 UTC

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[Question] Comprehensible Input is the only way people learn languages—is it the only way people learn?

lillybaeum30 Nov 2023 13:31 UTC

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Has anyone experimented with Dodrio, a tool for exploring transformer models through interactive visualization?

Bill Benzon11 Dec 2023 20:34 UTC

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Aligning an H-JEPA agent via training on the outputs of an LLM-based “exemplary actor”

Roman Leventov29 May 2023 11:08 UTC

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An LLM-based “exemplary actor”

Roman Leventov29 May 2023 11:12 UTC

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Xanadu, GPT, and Beyond: An adventure of the mind

Bill Benzon27 Aug 2023 16:19 UTC

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Steven Harnad: Symbol grounding and the structure of dictionaries

Bill Benzon2 Sep 2023 12:28 UTC

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Discursive Competence in ChatGPT, Part 2: Memory for Texts

Bill Benzon28 Sep 2023 16:34 UTC

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Notes on ChatGPT’s “memory” for strings and for events

Bill Benzon20 Sep 2023 18:12 UTC

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Genocide isn’t Decolonization

robotelvis20 Oct 2023 4:14 UTC

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(messyprogress.substack.com)

Let’s go meta: Grammatical knowledge and self-referential sentences [ChatGPT]

Bill Benzon12 Dec 2022 21:50 UTC

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On the naturalistic study of the linguistic behavior of artificial intelligence

Bill Benzon3 Jan 2023 9:06 UTC

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ChatGPT intimates a tantalizing future; its core LLM is organized on multiple levels; and it has broken the idea of thinking.

Bill Benzon24 Jan 2023 19:05 UTC

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Semi-rare plain language words that are great to remember

LVSN3 Feb 2023 16:33 UTC

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The Linguistic Blind Spot of Value-Aligned Agency, Natural and Artificial

Roman Leventov14 Feb 2023 6:57 UTC

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(arxiv.org)

ChatGPT explores the semantic differential

Bill Benzon9 Mar 2023 13:09 UTC

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What Boston Can Teach Us About What a Woman Is

ymeskhout1 May 2023 15:34 UTC

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Categorical Organization in Memory: ChatGPT Organizes the 665 Topic Tags from My New Savanna Blog

Bill Benzon14 Dec 2023 13:02 UTC

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A tedious and effective way to learn 汉字 (Chinese characters)

dkl93 Mar 2024 16:41 UTC

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(dkl9.net)

“Genlangs” and Zipf’s Law: Do languages generated by ChatGPT statistically look human?

Justin-Diamond31 Jan 2024 18:30 UTC

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(arxiv.org)

How I designed my own writing system, VJScript

vkethana29 May 2024 23:18 UTC

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(www.vkethana.com)

Abs-E (or, speak only in the positive)

dkl919 Feb 2024 21:14 UTC

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(dkl9.net)

The role of philosophical thinking in understanding large language models: Calibrating and closing the gap between first-person experience and underlying mechanisms

Bill Benzon23 Feb 2024 12:19 UTC

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Toki pona FAQ

dkl917 Mar 2024 21:44 UTC

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(dkl9.net)

[Question] Could LLMs Help Generate New Concepts in Human Language?

Pekka Lampelto24 Mar 2024 20:13 UTC

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Is Wittgenstein’s Language Game used when helping Ai understand language?

VisionaryHera4 Jun 2024 7:41 UTC

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[Question] Is LLM Translation Without Rosetta Stone possible?

cubefox11 Apr 2024 0:36 UTC

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Multicore 22 Dec 2022 5:39 UTC
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Merge candidate with Philosophy of Language?
- Yoav Ravid 19 Jan 2023 14:20 UTC
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  Agree. and I’d keep this title.