Elan Barenholtz
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2,007 appearances
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first heard Feb 2025
last heard Jun 2025
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But wh who's I?
And what do you mean think?
Right?
How is language have wrong concepts about itself?
that are actually manifestations of its own structure.
Um
The good news is that I have an a a sort of escape hatch here, which is
There was real this is really and in some ways a very s very, very simple account.
And it's it's just that there's prediction, uh, from sequence to token.
How that does stuff in the world is a is a harder problem.
How that does stuff uh as we were discussing.
Um, how how does it uh allow me to to say something to you that then can have perceptual consequences, m uh behavioral consequences?
This is certainly a difficult problem.
But we can ignore that problem for a moment and say we are gonna take language on its own terms.
And what language is, is simply a map amongst meaningless squiggles.
It's simply a map amongst various uh
what we can think of as largely arbitrary um symbols.
And those symbols can get grounded in in in writing.
They could get grounded uh in the activation of of circuits, they can get grounded in the uh uh dend dendritic uh or or uh neural responses.
Um but the the the the core hypothesis here is that what language is is simply
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