Dmytry comments on The Strangest Thing An AI Could Tell You - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Dmytry 02 March 2012 10:27:42PM 1 point [-]

You know, at first I just totally rejected any strong Sapir-Whorf hypothesis, but then it got me thinking. It may actually be true to varying extent for many people. Not to such extreme extent perhaps, but to the extent that people don't learn a thought structure beyond that provided by the language.