<div><br></div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, Apr 23, 2023 at 3:33 AM Ben Zaiboc via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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On 23/04/2023 03:08, Gordon Swobe wrote:<br>
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<div dir="ltr">On Sat, Apr 22, 2023 at 5:35 PM Giovanni Santostasi
via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org" target="_blank">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>>
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<div dir="ltr">Linguistics is obsolete... We need to develop a
scientific form of linguistics...</div>
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<div>This is typical of all your arguments, Giovanni, and why I
no longer take you seriously. If I showed you evidence that
because 2+2=4, GPT-4 is unconscious just as it claims to be,
you would probably tell me that mathematics is obsolete and
try to replace it with some half-baked theory of your own to
replace mathematics. just as you want to do now with
the well-established science of linguistics. </div>
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Well done, Gordon. You've reached the "if you can't criticise the
argument, criticise the person making it" stage.</div></blockquote><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">That is the exact opposite of what I did. His arguments generally amount to denying massive amounts of established knowledge, in this case the science of linguistics. I am criticizing his argument and pointing out that this is not the first time.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">-gts</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto"><br>
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Ben<br>
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