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		archaeans 6 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Is chain-of-thought AI reasoning a mirage? "It would be naïve to imagine that any analysis of experience is dependent on pattern expressed in language." - Sapir It's hard to take these discussions on cognition and intelligence seriously when there is so much lossy compression going on.

danans 6 months ago [–]

Sapir-Whorf was named after, but not postulated as a single theory by Sapir or Whorf. It's just a colloquialism for Linguistic Relativity (vs Universality). In its weak form, there are many examples of Linguistic Relativity.

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