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As AI is a maximalist (and extraordinarily expensive) disproof of language as a coordinating, accurate communication system, Trump's economic policies are a disproof of economic 'science' and revelation it's merely enactive game-theory.


“ Spoken with neither anything beyond lay observation of linguistics nor economics.”


“I think there are a few strands of intuition and confusions that have led people to believe very strongly that language is the medium of thought,” she says. “But when they are pulled apart thread by thread, they don’t really hold up to empirical scrutiny.” E Fedorenko

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