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Chomsky on human nature and human understanding

2012· book-chapter· en· W826455379 on OpenAlexaff
Noam Chomsky, James McGilvray

Bibliographic record

VenueCambridge University Press eBooks · 2012
Typebook-chapter
Languageen
FieldComputer Science
TopicDigital Communication and Language
Canadian institutionsMcGill University
Fundersnot available
KeywordsFlexibility (engineering)AdaptabilityCognitive sciencePsychologyEpistemologyCommunicationPhilosophyBiologyEcologyEconomicsManagement

Abstract

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JM: Human beings as a species are remarkably uniform, genetically speaking. Yet humans have proven extraordinarily adaptable in various environments, extremely flexible in their ability to solve practical problems, endlessly productive in their linguistic output, and unique in their capacity for inventing scientific explanations. Some, a great many in fact, have taken all this as reason to think that human nature is plastic, perhaps molded by environment – including social environment – and individual invention. The engines of this flexibility and invention are claimed to lie in some recognition of similarities, in induction, or in some other unspecified but general learning and invention technique. This plastic view of human nature has even been thought to be a progressive, socially responsible one. Clearly you disagree. Could you explain why you think that a fixed biologically determined and uniform human nature is compatible with and perhaps even underlies such flexibility, productivity, adaptability, and conceptual inventiveness?

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesMeta-epidemiology (narrow)
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Other · Consensus signal: Other
Teacher disagreement score0.995
Threshold uncertainty score1.000

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0010.001
Research integrity0.0000.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.063
GPT teacher head0.249
Teacher spread0.186 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.

Study designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreOther

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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