I start to dislike Chomsky more and more. His work in linguistic is over my head, maybe it's true, I can't tell.
But whenever I hear him speak outside his niche his points are stupid (like this one) or harmful (like his Ukrainian takes).
Everybody sees faces in rocks because we have brains fine-tuned for seeing faces. Does it prove that there's something universal in looking like a face or even worse - being a face? Some objective "faceiness"?
Or just that we have overfitted neural networks in our heads?
You can get hit in a particular way and stop recognizing faces. Or morality.
What Chomsky is saying is that if you include only the people who are "healthy" according to some subjective criteria and take a crossection of their moralities - the result isn't an empty set. Well duh.
But whenever I hear him speak outside his niche his points are stupid (like this one) or harmful (like his Ukrainian takes).
Everybody sees faces in rocks because we have brains fine-tuned for seeing faces. Does it prove that there's something universal in looking like a face or even worse - being a face? Some objective "faceiness"?
Or just that we have overfitted neural networks in our heads?
You can get hit in a particular way and stop recognizing faces. Or morality.
What Chomsky is saying is that if you include only the people who are "healthy" according to some subjective criteria and take a crossection of their moralities - the result isn't an empty set. Well duh.