I dislike how LLMs are causing lay people to recapitulate the debates about private language that have been had in the philosophy of language community. At first I was so excited that people were talking about one of my favorite topics (finally! My niche interest! People care!) but it became clear that people were doing way more talking than reading and thinking, so the conversations are typically not that great.
If you thought that this blog post had provocative ideas, you might be interested in reading some of Ludwig Wittgenstein's philosophy of language or Roy Harris's work on integrationist linguistics. These ideas have been debated for a long time.
If you thought that this blog post had provocative ideas, you might be interested in reading some of Ludwig Wittgenstein's philosophy of language or Roy Harris's work on integrationist linguistics. These ideas have been debated for a long time.