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October 8th Jew. I tell computers what to do.

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Best summary I've seen.

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No parallels exist for other kinds of bigotry, anywhere across the political spectrum.

Anyone paying attention already knows all of this, of course. But it's nice to see it quantitatively borne out.

Source: https://t.co/hpNN9twP2O

2/2

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Hot off the presses in the journal American Psychologist:
Leftists/liberals, but not conservatives, are willing to excuse antisemitism if the offender rhetorically ties that antisemitism to Israel. 1/2

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I would bet good money that within my lifetime, we will see a remake of Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings that "centers" the Uruk Hai as victims of "systemic oppression"

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I condemn the senseless attack on a mosque in San Diego. But I think it's important to recognize the effects Gazans' actions have on anti-muslim sentiments, and their role in the rise of islamophobia. The actions of Gazans are endangering muslims worldwide.

#AmIDoingThisRight

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New list of unrepentant antisemites just dropped!

[GLOW @GLOW_ling]

Guest editors:
Golshan Shakeebaee, Adelaide Banafo, Ai Chen, Katharina Hartmann, Anke Himmelreich, Jana-Elina Jordan, Farbod Khouzani, Viktor Köhlich, Johannes Mursell, Kwaku Sasu, Golshan Shakeebaee

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In a few years, when this hype-cycle about the Spicy Autocomplete is over, people like this are going to be SO embarrassed that they were swept up in it.

It's like if philosophers had come out of the woodwork circa 1999 to issue proclamations on the profundity of Pets dot Com.

[Henry Shevlin @dioscuri]

Big personal news: I’ve been recruited by Google DeepMind for a new Philosopher position (actual title), focusing on machine consciousness, human-AI relationships, and AGI readiness, starting in May. I’ll continue my research & teaching at Cambridge part-time. Absolutely stoked!

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The definitive post on "AI" in software engineering: https://t.co/jBlhtQua72

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@haspelmath Because that perspective has been shown repeatedly to be a dead end (any finding ever associated with the Autonomy of Syntax shows this).

Agreement, case, L-selection (proud of vs. angry at, etc.), gender systems. The list is endless.

Is flat-earthism also a "perspective"? 🙂

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@MagnusPharao @chrisinthebooks lmao touché!

see?? there's a right way & a wrong way to do this 😂

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What an utter embarrassment for everyone involved. https://t.co/w9YujsTUQJ

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@MagnusPharao @chrisinthebooks Remember, kids: decorum-shaming is the path of the imbecile.

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@MagnusPharao @chrisinthebooks He sure ain't showing it here 🤷‍♂️

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@MagnusPharao @chrisinthebooks Sometimes, yes!

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@chrisinthebooks @MagnusPharao I'm muting you now - one of the joys of being a FORMER academic is that it's not my job to remediate your ignorance. 👋

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@chrisinthebooks @MagnusPharao You seem to not understand some basic points:

1. Language ≠ Language Use

Wrt "you", prag. influenced the latter not the former.

2. What *formal* means

The point is precisely that "you" is *formally* plural while semantically entirely underspecified.

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@chrisinthebooks @MagnusPharao number-neutral pronoun. At that point, the fact that it governs plural agreement even with a singular referent became opaque, synchronically, to speakers.

Voilà: pragmatic pressure on diachrony without any pragmatic pressure on synchronic syntactic representations. 2/2

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@chrisinthebooks @MagnusPharao Let me give you a concrete example that would perhaps help clarify:

"You" was a purely plural pronoun, which was getting overused due to a pragmatic pressure (style/politeness). At some point, it got reanalyzed by young people acquiring the language as a 1/

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@MagnusPharao but nobody has ever put forth a working semantic definition of those. in mainstream formal sem., they are both <e,t>.

& of course there are nouns like "action" and verbs like "to exist" that resist the more naive attempts.

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@MagnusPharao @chrisinthebooks This is a fair point! But it stops well short of course of the proclamations made by the workshop's participants.

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@MagnusPharao ok but like maybe start with the painfully obvious challenges and don't go public until you have something to say about them...?

(same criticism applies, with equal force, to most everything Chomsky has had to say post-1990 or so)

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@chrisinthebooks @MagnusPharao lol no.

Syntax has endless things that are synchronically arbitrary but which can be traced to diachronic pressures (whose causal elements are often, by now, completely opaque to the naive speaker).

The diachronic shifts are what is being influenced.