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Like the CS metaphor for what happened to humans is "I figured out how to build the instruction set this ape manufacturer put in the apes for hunting and gathering into a Turing-complete language"
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so what you're saying is twitter is the next phase of human evolution
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So, animals don’t “know” anything? My dog does not have language but it can recognize patterns and adjust behavior accordingly
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Well that's a great big philosophical question
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Scientists designing nuclear waste repositories have repeatedly tried designing “warnings that will be legible to any future language-capable creatures, even if their language bears no resemblance to ours” and basically everything is just Mummy’s Curse threats
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And linguists and neurologists and computer scientists still don’t exactly know how language works which is why we can’t have an actual conversation with Siri.
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At uni I developed the truthy, vaguely weak-Whorfist idea that learning wasn't so much about learning how the world works, but about learning the discipline-specific jargon to describe how the world works from that discipline's point of view. Know the word, know the concept.
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