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Here's a weird thought. Human language was invented in an environment where max scale was say a few hundred. Written language, for maybe a few 1000. Yet here we are, using language casually at scales of potentially 7 billion with thousands of tricky translations, and it works.
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Language(particularly syntax and grammar) is probably the only set of communication protocols built in that era. Perhaps that’s why it scales. Grammar and syntax serve as a strong core around which innovation (slang, amelioration etc) makes language ‘current’ and scalable.
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Programming language framed as a human language but “close to the metal” in the sense of being refined down to the interface between both human-compatibility and mathematical rigor— by this formulation is an extension of human lang... plus scale!
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Is it fair to claim that "language" was the same thing then as now? As has our thinking itself, language seems like a large suite of tools that had been growing and evolving for millennia.
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Language is not a technology any more than seeing and hearing are technologies. You've got entire regions in your brain that have evolved to handle language.
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