He singlehandedly rid linguistics of a stultifying (and technically mistaken) behaviorism.

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August 10, 2020
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Egnor: Why Linguist Noam Chomsky Is a Great Scientist of Our Era

Philosophers and linguists have asked for millennia: How did language arise in man? The question can be asked of humanity as a whole—how and when did language arise in our ancestors? It can also be asked of each of us individually—how did each of us learn language as a child?

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Business Prof: Stop It! The World is NOT Running Out of Stuff!

Recently, Jay Richards interviewed Dr. Gale Pooley, Professor of Economics at BYU-Hawaii, on the myth that we are running out of resources and doomed to future scarcity. Even though media pundits often claim it is true, the numbers say it is a myth. The story begins with a famous bet between two professors.

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When Science Fiction Comes to Life…

A senior editor at Wired told us a while back that science fiction writer H. G. Wells’s 1914 tale, The World Set Free, formed part of the inspiration for the atomic bomb, exploded over Hiroshima in 1945.

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Nieri: AI-Written Scenario for Dungeons & Dragons Is Actually Quite Good

Nick Walton, the creator of AI Dungeon (an online text-based adventure game similar to D&D), has just announced that his game will be utilizing one of the most powerful AI models in the world to create truly compelling stories for the players.

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Do Some Passages in the Book of Revelation Seem to Talk About AI?

John Lennox, author of 2084: Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Humanity (2020), is an Emeritus Professor of Mathematics at Oxford University. In a podcast with Robert J. Marks, director of the Walter Bradley Institute, he addresses the question, “Do some passages in the Book of Revelation seem to talk about AI?”

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