Me too! I mean, I learned something!
There seem to be 2 types of teachers. Those who fail and those who succeed. The old version was for the former, the new version for the latter.
Today I learned that âinfantâ literally comes from âone unable to speakâ.
Itâs wild how much our language influences our daily life, and vice versa.
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I remember a theory (who knows if legit) that childhood amnesia could be due to language development. That is, before we have words, maybe we canât really encode our memories?
Also the more I learn about modern ChatBots, the more I think that âthinkingâ is language imitation.
Iâm reading Oliver Sacksâ âSeeing Voicesâ, and there are similar theories inside. Like, not only do we not have memories before we have words, weâre not even human until we have a grasp of language as a thing, a symbolic representation and abstraction of the world around us.
How do animals remember things?
shrug
Maybe they canât remember the same kinds of things.
Exactly, and I suspect that some day soon, Chat Bots will be the converse. They will be weirdly human, in having the power of symbolic representation and abstraction, but not animal, since they wonât be living in a world.
And maybe we could have chat bots on this site - âBack by popular demand, jasKent 2.0â
If you just programmed it to say âyou lotâ a bunch, no one would notice it wasnât him. Maybe a dolphin ring avatar?
yap!
I can see that you CLEARLY donât have the pedigree required to recognize his genius, consider yourself lucky to kiss that dolphin ring, plebe.
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I wonder if he ever imagined that dolphin ring would be his legacy.
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I feel a little bad making fun of him over it⌠a little.
I donât think he cares.
Stopped at the grocery store on my morning walk and picked up a few things, one of which rang up (at the self-checkout) $8 too high. For $8 Iâm gonna point it out & wait for them to fix it.
Guy next to me had a bunch of groceries and spun the little table the bags are on after heâd filled up two bags to get two more fresh ones on the other side. Mind blown⌠it never occurred to me that you could do that.
Of course in the time it took me to log in, find this thread and type this post I am still waiting for the guy the first lady called to come make this right.
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At least until the inheritance comes in.
Be like Jesus, be the fisher of fishers of fishermen.
Or like that St Ives dude who used bigamy to scale kitty transport.
