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Normal_Anomaly comments on Tidbit: “Semantic over-achievers” - Less Wrong Discussion

6 Post author: kpreid 01 December 2011 03:49PM

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Comment author: Normal_Anomaly 03 December 2011 03:24:51AM 0 points [-]

That's very interesting. I thought that all human languages were "Turing-Complete" because otherwise they wouldn't be able to do everything they were used for.

Comment author: gwern 03 December 2011 03:30:37AM 0 points [-]

Humans don't compute unbounded loops in their spoken languages. :)