Re:Chomsky and the Two Cultures of Statistical Learning
by suddenlybananas on Saturday November 07, 2026 @03:24AM
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Of course children are not a blank state. My point is to argue that LLMs are not an argument against UG.
An LLM must construct all of its grammatical structure, world models, etc. from scratch during pretraining.
LLM pre-training is more like recapitulating evolution of the mammalian brain than childhood development.