Very few human technologies of paleolithic vintage can claim this level of scaling success
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Does it really "work" tho? Or maybe so many of our geopolitical issues are due to the insufficiency of existing language
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The problem seems more one of information compression than one of syntax. Natural language is optimized for communication between participants who share a lot of prior context - we've developed more precise languages (mathematical notation) but they're necessarily verbose.
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Same with our theory of mind. Our intuition about other people’s intentions and what they might be thinking evolved in a close setting. Now we misapply the same theory, worrying about what our twitter and Instagram followers must be thinking.
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Do they were experience us in parallel or just massively serially?
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Language is the oldest and largest example of the open-source model at work. It’s come this far because anyone can play with it and use it however they like.
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Human language as an abstract distributed database?
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Soon. Human-machine language
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A process of evolution may be involved: Maybe there were the good old days where millions of languages exist, but only those scalable survived.
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Or worse, we think it does...
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