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“But even this would be an important discovery – the discovery that huge swaths of what we consider most essential about language can be done “non-linguistically...”
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“It would imply that there are language-like behaviors out there in logical space which aren’t language and which are nonetheless so much like it, non-trivially, beautifully, spine-chillingly like it.”
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I think this is in fact what’s going on. GPT2 can say things that don’t make sense with a fluent prose style; therefore it is possible to have style and make no sense.
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In fact you can have note-perfect, sophisticated, convincing style without coming one inch closer to making sense.
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Style and sense may just be two disjoint capacities. If I’m speculating I tend to think the “cortical algorithm” is for style, and sense is extrapolated from something striatal or related to motor/kinaesthetic learning.
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Personally it’s frustrating because I have awesome style and just enough sense to keep up, and most of the people I know are sorta “sense-supremacists” who think that skill profile is a hallmark of bad people.
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Fwiw I can’t remember having read anything you’ve written that didn’t make sense
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