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Comment author: Bobertron 20 March 2012 01:50:16AM 2 points [-]

I have been wondering for a while: what's the source for the A Human's Guide to Words sequence? I mean EY had to come up with that somehow and unlike with the probability and cognitive science stuff, I have no idea what kind of books inspired A Human's Guide to Words. What are the keywords here?

Comment author: Grognor 24 March 2012 10:58:14PM 2 points [-]

Eliezer had read Language in Thought and Action prior to writing this sequence, and he might have gotten some of it from Steven Pinker or the MIT Encyclopedia of the Cognitive Sciences as well.

Comment author: beoShaffer 22 March 2012 06:19:42PM 1 point [-]

If I understand correctly, it was partially inspired by general semantics.

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