The Word Is Not Enough: Steven Pinker on the bond between Words and RulesAmitai Schlairhttps://schmonz.com/2007/11/01/the-word-is-not-enough-steven-pinker-on-the-bond-between-words-and-rules/Yareev's schmonz.comikiwiki2022-08-25T13:39:50Zcomment 1https://schmonz.com/2007/11/01/the-word-is-not-enough-steven-pinker-on-the-bond-between-words-and-rules/comment_1_ec38e23b97f71f2c013fa91062edb3a6/Nathan Arthur2022-08-25T13:39:50Z2007-11-02T16:00:03Z
<p>Very nice summary – just exactly the right amount of dense. (I haven’t read the book.) It’s your last paragraph that I was most hoping for – I’ve thought for a while that computer systems that model thinking will need to be <strong>both</strong> strict and rough, and that there isn’t enough time spent on making such systems now. </p>
<p>This also reminds me that you need to read The Singularity is Near, which is similarly interesting and dense. And now I also want you to write a similar summary of it – I think such a summary (written by you) would be a significant addition to the cognitive universe.</p>
comment 2https://schmonz.com/2007/11/01/the-word-is-not-enough-steven-pinker-on-the-bond-between-words-and-rules/comment_2_64fc4ae3464363873fd6be1b8ce7b0bf/Kurtiss Hare2014-12-30T03:26:33Z2007-11-03T05:20:09Z
<p>I <3 me some linguistics. Did you see Pinker when he was at Case a couple years ago?</p>
<p>I subscribed to http://www.podictionary.com/ a couple weeks ago, and I’ve been enjoying the short form etymologies there.</p>