RobinZ comments on Building Weirdtopia - Less Wrong

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Comment author: RobinZ 02 February 2012 05:53:13PM 2 points [-]

Young adults out of their sim will be basically speaking a private language [...]

Why? Presumably the hunter-gatherers had a language which the children learned, before they started inventing new ideas and corresponding words for them - make that language one which the children can use when they leave.

Comment author: Risto_Saarelma 02 February 2012 06:35:23PM 10 points [-]

Someone on the project wanted to test Sapir-Whorf and insisted on randomizing the grammar and vocabulary of the seed language for every run.