[ExI] Bender's Octopus (re: LLMs like ChatGPT)

[Tara Maya]

> On Mar 24, 2023, at 1:11 AM, Stuart LaForge via extropy-chat <extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
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> But really the meaning of words are quite arbitrary and determined by the people who use them. Thus the referential meanings of words evolve and change over time and come to refer to different things. 


The meaning of words can only change over time if the referents that they indicate change. 

That does not make words arbitrary, but in fact, shows how important referents are for real language.
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