Great post. I am far too much of a linguistic neophyte to have any input but in trying to get a grasp on the field it does strike me that Chomsky will be a real time example of science advancing one funeral at a time.
I wouldn't be shocked if he becomes the archetype of this process for future generations.
Hopefully we can find a word someday for this process of deification of an individual that holds back an entire field while the deity is alive.
I am pushing 50 and the idea of America becoming cashless in my lifetime is not going to happen.
There is no way our law makers are going to want to lose access to cash. No one wants to get a bribe or conduct a shady deal in a highly traceable digital currency in the US.
Not to mention, we can't even get rid of 100% utterly useless pennies. They are basically a form of government printed litter that I am not sure is even worth a homeless person's time to be bothered with.
Standard bubble nonsense. The kind of thing you will look back on 5 years from now and remember the good ol days and the absurdity of the bubble times.
We went way beyond the dot com bubble in all regards. The hangover of this much partying sucks.
I quite enjoy the type of movie they are referencing and have almost never watched a super hero movie but The Fabelmans looks like a total bore. That is even with wanting to see Julia Butters acting evolve.
We will see with Nolan's Oppenheimer next year.
This is all over dramatized. Butters will probably be the biggest actor in the world in 10 years making "serious" dramas.
Tarantino has even talked about how this goes in cycles and we have been going through a boring time like in the late 50s.
Exactly.
The car is just a better version of the horse and buggy. There are no massive sociological changes that came from the invention of the automobile.
Human social behavior is completely scale invariant.
Society is just the relationship I have with my brother, replicated millions of times with no higher order effects, weird feedback loops, weird non-linear effects.
IMO the problem is that complex systems is not a field that is taken seriously yet. It got off to a bad start years back with that shitty James Gleick Chaos book.
We just don't have enough people thinking about this as a SIR model on a social graph to spark the conversation. We literally lack the critical mass of people understanding the language. Without the language the thoughts don't exist.
I am sure a 100 years from now people will look back at us as completely insane to be letting social contagions spread around to children as random graphs on a network.
It is a ridiculous and intellectually embarrassing question. I just picture what someone like Feynman would think of a question like this.
I wouldn't be shocked this is a higher order effect of too much of certain 20th century French philosophers. We can't even make test questions that aren't bullshit.
There literally should be a none of the above choice because of lack of information in the question.
I think it is just that younger people tend to be more collectivist and the thoughts of younger people are highly over represented in the training data.
"Impure thoughts are a danger to democracy, access denied."