Re:Chomsky and the Two Cultures of Statistical Learning
by rcxdude on Friday November 06, 2026 @11:13AM
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If you are counting by bytes and including all sensory input, sure. In terms of amount of text, it's not close in the other direction. It's very difficult to make an apples to apples comparison here.
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Re:Chomsky and the Two Cultures of Statistical Learning
by lostmsu on Friday November 06, 2026 @05:36PM
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Re:Chomsky and the Two Cultures of Statistical Learning
by rcxdude on Friday November 06, 2026 @05:54PM
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Last I checked people don't have a digital information stream running from their eyeballs to their brain. It is not the same thing at all.
Re:Chomsky and the Two Cultures of Statistical Learning
by jibalt on Saturday November 07, 2026 @12:44PM
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What they said, which is true, is that an LLM's inputs measured in bytes of language is much higher than for humans. Throwing in all the non-language bytes of sensory input received by humans is not valid and thus is not apples to apples. Children learning from watching a dog do zoomies around the room or butterflies in the garden is not learning language.