Language & Linguistics

TagLast edit: Oct 24, 2022, 7:46 PM by Ruby

[Letter] Chinese Quickstart

lsusrDec 1, 2024, 6:38 AM

32 points

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The possible shared Craft of deliberate Lexicogenesis

TsviBTMay 20, 2023, 5:56 AM

49 points

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[Linkpost] Vague Verbiage in Forecasting

trevorMar 22, 2024, 6:05 PM

11 points

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(goodjudgment.com)

Late-talking kid part 3: gestalt language learning

Steven ByrnesOct 17, 2023, 2:00 AM

31 points

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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

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Telic intuitions across the sciences

mrcbarbierOct 22, 2022, 9:31 PM

4 points

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“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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Pronouns are Annoying

ymeskhoutSep 18, 2024, 1:30 PM

15 points

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(www.ymeskhout.com)

Why you should learn sign language

Noah TopperJan 18, 2023, 5:03 PM

53 points

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(naivebayes.substack.com)

On the Role of Proto-Languages

adamShimiSep 22, 2024, 4:50 PM

54 points

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(epistemologicalfascinations.substack.com)

There Are No Primordial Definitions of Man/Woman

ymeskhoutJun 6, 2024, 7:30 PM

11 points

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(ymeskhout.substack.com)

Hard Questions Are Language Bugs

George3d6Sep 4, 2023, 2:44 PM

29 points

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(ontologi.cc)

Thoughts on Creating a Good Language

Towards_KeeperhoodApr 6, 2025, 3:57 PM

1 point

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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

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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

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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

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Phonosemantic Duplication

bitcoinssgJun 12, 2024, 8:19 PM

5 points

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Debunking the myth of safe AI

henophiliaDec 15, 2024, 5:44 PM

−11 points

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(henophilia.substack.com)

Walking Sue

Matthew McRedmondDec 18, 2024, 1:19 PM

2 points

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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

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Generating Cognateful Sentences with Large Language Models

vkethanaJan 6, 2025, 6:40 PM

8 points

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Intrinsic Dimension of Prompts in LLMs

Karthik ViswanathanFeb 14, 2025, 7:02 PM

3 points

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The present perfect tense is ruining your life

PatrickDFarleyJan 27, 2025, 4:14 PM

24 points

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[Question] Would it be effective to learn a language to improve cognition?

HrussMar 26, 2025, 10:17 AM

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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

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Natural language alignment

Jacy Reese AnthisApr 12, 2023, 7:02 PM

31 points

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

Fergus FettesOct 28, 2023, 8:12 PM

13 points

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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

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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

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

Bill BenzonAug 27, 2023, 4:19 PM

2 points

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Steven Harnad: Symbol grounding and the structure of dictionaries

Bill BenzonSep 2, 2023, 12:28 PM

5 points

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Discursive Competence in ChatGPT, Part 2: Memory for Texts

Bill BenzonSep 28, 2023, 4:34 PM

1 point

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

Bill BenzonSep 20, 2023, 6:12 PM

3 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

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

Bill BenzonDec 12, 2022, 9:50 PM

5 points

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On the naturalistic study of the linguistic behavior of artificial intelligence

Bill BenzonJan 3, 2023, 9:06 AM

1 point

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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 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

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

Roman LeventovFeb 14, 2023, 6:57 AM

6 points

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(arxiv.org)

ChatGPT explores the semantic differential

Bill BenzonMar 9, 2023, 1:09 PM

7 points

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Genocide isn’t Decolonization

robotelvisOct 20, 2023, 4:14 AM

33 points

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(messyprogress.substack.com)

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

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(dkl9.net)

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

Justin-DiamondJan 31, 2024, 6:30 PM

2 points

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(arxiv.org)

How I designed my own writing system, VJScript

vkethanaMay 29, 2024, 11:18 PM

2 points

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(www.vkethana.com)

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

dkl9Feb 19, 2024, 9:14 PM

29 points

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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 BenzonFeb 23, 2024, 12:19 PM

4 points

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Toki pona FAQ

dkl9Mar 17, 2024, 9:44 PM

37 points

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(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

15 points

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Learning Written Hindi From Scratch

MorpheusApr 11, 2024, 11:13 AM

3 points

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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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  Parent
  Agree. and I’d keep this title.