“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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I think some people are legitimately better at style than sense or vice versa! They are not faking! Fluent pattern-matching != structural comprehension!
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There are posts on Scott's blog which are Scott being extremely good at math (but not noticing, because he thinks math is something it's not). So count me as someone who doesn't believe he's "bad at math".
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I'm not sure of all of what you are referring to since I am not an ML researcher, but I am a trained linguist & read the paper out of curiosity. I don't think he is being reasonable to the state of machine transalation and UG in the 2000s. Everyone thought the paradigm wld work.
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Among the rationalists, I always thought that Paul and Wei Dai were like the opposite of this: their ideas make more sense than anyone else's, but their style is so boring few people read them.
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Exactly. Though I disagree with Paul about some stuff, he’s clearly extremely good at the structural/logical thought thing.
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