I claim Scott Alexander has the same thing: writes compulsively, great at style pastiche, nobody believes him when he says he’s bad at math.
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Yes and some, including me, sort of still do for a very good reason brought to light by Chomsky: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plato%27s_Problem …
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I totally believe there is a hard-coded “general ability to reason symbolically” in the human brain. I think it’s pretty obviously not limited to sentence-level syntax!!
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I had the same thought. I've chatted with some of the people who did statistical machine learning in the early 90s. I got the distinct impression _they_ didn't believe this! But then that's what you'd expect, I guess.
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Yes exactly. UG has always been hugely polarizing. Chomsky basically stomped on the comparative linguists and above all behaviorists like Skinner who didn't believe in innate language skills in the 50s. People have been after him and his paradigm ever since!
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