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Lan­guage & Linguistics

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Pro­nouns are Annoying

ymeskhoutSep 18, 2024, 1:30 PM
15 points
23 comments4 min readLW link
(www.ymeskhout.com)

On the Role of Proto-Languages

adamShimiSep 22, 2024, 4:50 PM
54 points
1 comment4 min readLW link
(epistemologicalfascinations.substack.com)

Late-talk­ing kid part 3: gestalt lan­guage learning

Steven ByrnesOct 17, 2023, 2:00 AM
31 points
5 comments3 min readLW link

[Linkpost] Vague Ver­biage in Forecasting

trevorMar 22, 2024, 6:05 PM
11 points
9 comments3 min readLW link
(goodjudgment.com)

Telic in­tu­itions across the sciences

mrcbarbierOct 22, 2022, 9:31 PM
4 points
0 comments17 min readLW link

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

Roman LeventovDec 19, 2023, 4:49 PM
17 points
5 comments3 min readLW link

[Let­ter] Chi­nese Quickstart

lsusrDec 1, 2024, 6:38 AM
32 points
0 comments5 min readLW link

Why you should learn sign language

Noah TopperJan 18, 2023, 5:03 PM
53 points
23 comments7 min readLW link
(naivebayes.substack.com)

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

Chris_LeongApr 20, 2024, 2:54 PM
5 points
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Hard Ques­tions Are Lan­guage Bugs

George3d6Sep 4, 2023, 2:44 PM
29 points
12 comments7 min readLW link
(ontologi.cc)

There Are No Pri­mor­dial Defi­ni­tions of Man/​Woman

ymeskhoutJun 6, 2024, 7:30 PM
11 points
0 comments4 min readLW link
(ymeskhout.substack.com)

The pos­si­ble shared Craft of de­liber­ate Lex­i­co­ge­n­e­sis

TsviBTMay 20, 2023, 5:56 AM
49 points
5 comments5 min readLW link

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

Cleo NardoMar 16, 2023, 3:08 AM
107 points
26 comments5 min readLW link

Learn­ing Writ­ten Hindi From Scratch

MorpheusApr 11, 2024, 11:13 AM
3 points
0 comments2 min readLW link

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

Bill BenzonApr 11, 2024, 8:27 PM
3 points
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Re­la­tion­ships among words, met­al­in­gual defi­ni­tion, and interpretability

Bill BenzonJun 7, 2024, 7:18 PM
2 points
0 comments5 min readLW link

How to be an am­a­teur polyglot

arisAlexisMay 8, 2024, 3:08 PM
66 points
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If lan­guage is for com­mu­ni­ca­tion, what does that im­ply about LLMs?

Bill BenzonMay 12, 2024, 2:55 AM
10 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Phonose­man­tic Duplication

bitcoinssgJun 12, 2024, 8:19 PM
5 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

De­bunk­ing the myth of safe AI

henophiliaDec 15, 2024, 5:44 PM
−11 points
8 comments1 min readLW link
(henophilia.substack.com)

Walk­ing Sue

Matthew McRedmondDec 18, 2024, 1:19 PM
2 points
5 comments8 min readLW link

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

Andndn DheudndAug 14, 2024, 10:19 PM
−4 points
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Levels of Thought: from Points to Fields

HNXDec 2, 2024, 8:25 PM
4 points
2 comments23 min readLW link

Gen­er­at­ing Cog­nate­ful Sen­tences with Large Lan­guage Models

vkethanaJan 6, 2025, 6:40 PM
8 points
0 comments10 min readLW link

In­trin­sic Di­men­sion of Prompts in LLMs

Karthik ViswanathanFeb 14, 2025, 7:02 PM
3 points
0 comments4 min readLW link

The pre­sent perfect tense is ru­in­ing your life

PatrickDFarleyJan 27, 2025, 4:14 PM
24 points
14 comments8 min readLW link

elimi­nat­ing bias through lan­guage?

KvmanThinkingFeb 4, 2025, 1:52 AM
1 point
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Inch­ing “Kubla Khan” and GPT into the same in­tel­lec­tual frame­work @ 3 Quarks Daily

Bill BenzonMar 28, 2023, 7:50 PM
5 points
0 comments3 min readLW link

Nat­u­ral lan­guage alignment

Jacy Reese AnthisApr 12, 2023, 7:02 PM
31 points
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Has any­one ex­per­i­mented with Do­drio, a tool for ex­plor­ing trans­former mod­els through in­ter­ac­tive vi­su­al­iza­tion?

Bill BenzonDec 11, 2023, 8:34 PM
4 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

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

Bill BenzonNov 8, 2023, 4:58 PM
6 points
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Scott Alexan­der is wrong about slurs

[deactivated]Nov 21, 2023, 8:43 AM
−27 points
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[Question] Com­pre­hen­si­ble In­put is the only way peo­ple learn lan­guages—is it the only way peo­ple *learn*?

lillybaeumNov 30, 2023, 1:31 PM
8 points
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What Bos­ton Can Teach Us About What a Wo­man Is

ymeskhoutMay 1, 2023, 3:34 PM
18 points
45 comments12 min readLW link

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

Roman LeventovMay 29, 2023, 11:08 AM
12 points
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An LLM-based “ex­em­plary ac­tor”

Roman LeventovMay 29, 2023, 11:12 AM
16 points
0 comments12 min readLW link

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

Bill BenzonAug 27, 2023, 4:19 PM
2 points
0 comments5 min readLW link

Steven Har­nad: Sym­bol ground­ing and the struc­ture of dictionaries

Bill BenzonSep 2, 2023, 12:28 PM
5 points
3 comments2 min readLW link

Dis­cur­sive Com­pe­tence in ChatGPT, Part 2: Me­mory for Texts

Bill BenzonSep 28, 2023, 4:34 PM
1 point
0 comments3 min readLW link

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

Bill BenzonSep 20, 2023, 6:12 PM
3 points
0 comments10 min readLW link

Geno­cide isn’t Decolonization

robotelvisOct 20, 2023, 4:14 AM
33 points
19 comments5 min readLW link
(messyprogress.substack.com)

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

Bill BenzonDec 12, 2022, 9:50 PM
5 points
0 comments9 min readLW link

On the nat­u­ral­is­tic study of the lin­guis­tic be­hav­ior of ar­tifi­cial intelligence

Bill BenzonJan 3, 2023, 9:06 AM
1 point
0 comments4 min readLW link

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

Bill BenzonJan 24, 2023, 7:05 PM
5 points
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Semi-rare plain lan­guage words that are great to remember

LVSNFeb 3, 2023, 4:33 PM
4 points
7 comments1 min readLW link

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

Roman LeventovFeb 14, 2023, 6:57 AM
6 points
0 comments2 min readLW link
(arxiv.org)

ChatGPT ex­plores the se­man­tic differential

Bill BenzonMar 9, 2023, 1:09 PM
7 points
2 comments7 min readLW link

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

Fergus FettesOct 28, 2023, 8:12 PM
13 points
0 comments16 min readLW link

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

Bill BenzonDec 14, 2023, 1:02 PM
0 points
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A te­dious and effec­tive way to learn 汉字 (Chi­nese char­ac­ters)

dkl9Mar 3, 2024, 4:41 PM
7 points
1 comment2 min readLW link
(dkl9.net)

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

Justin-DiamondJan 31, 2024, 6:30 PM
2 points
2 comments1 min readLW link
(arxiv.org)

How I de­signed my own writ­ing sys­tem, VJScript

vkethanaMay 29, 2024, 11:18 PM
2 points
1 comment1 min readLW link
(www.vkethana.com)

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

dkl9Feb 19, 2024, 9:14 PM
29 points
24 comments2 min readLW link
(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 BenzonFeb 23, 2024, 12:19 PM
4 points
0 comments10 min readLW link

Toki pona FAQ

dkl9Mar 17, 2024, 9:44 PM
37 points
9 comments1 min readLW link
(dkl9.net)

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

Pekka LampeltoMar 24, 2024, 8:13 PM
10 points
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Is Wittgen­stein’s Lan­guage Game used when helping Ai un­der­stand lan­guage?

VisionaryHeraJun 4, 2024, 7:41 AM
3 points
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[Question] Is LLM Trans­la­tion Without Rosetta Stone pos­si­ble?

cubefoxApr 11, 2024, 12:36 AM
14 points
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