gwern comments on The Future of Education - Less Wrong

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Comment author: gwern 15 February 2012 01:20:30AM 4 points [-]

Even if he genuinely is thinking in the other languages, that doesn't go very far in showing usefulness. I bet if I spent years memorizing Scholastic metaphysics, I'd fall into occasional Scholastic patterns of thought or vocabulary even if it was completely useless. (And let's not talk about the size of the marginal returns, if we can't even decide on the sign.)

Comment author: billswift 15 February 2012 02:09:34AM 1 point [-]

I agree with you, he was, after all, responding to my calling "General Semantics" an extension of the "strong Sapir-Whorf mistake".