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by CMCDragonkai 370 days ago
Multilingual humans do this too, so not surprising that AI does this.
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CMCDragonkai 370 days ago
In fact monolingual humans have quite a limited understanding of the world.
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nsonha 370 days ago
No such thing as a monolingual human. Any language can be broken down to subsets that are associated with different ways of thinking. Another thing is globalization and culture export.
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Incipient 370 days ago
I know plenty of bilingual people that have a very limited understanding of the world, and conversely monolinguists that have a very broad view.

One could even say assuming someone's level of worldly understanding based on how many languages they speak shows a fairly limited world view.

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ta20240528 370 days ago
As I speaker of five languages, all but one fluently: why does my understanding of the world magically increase when I learn a new noun so say "sparrow" in the fifth that I'm learning?

Is it linear (25% more understanding for the fifth) or asymptotically? Does it increase across all domains equally (geology, poetry, ethics) or asymmetrically?

Seriously, explain it to me?

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