Comment by RosanaAnaDana
2 years ago
In a sense, science is a zero sum game. The theories and frameworks you spend a lifetime working on, are ultimately either right or wrong.
What I read from Chomsky seems like a bit of a desperate attempt to ask people not to look over at the thing, because the thing offers a new way of looking at how and where language comes from, and even more amazingly, its testable, empirical and reproducible in a way that Chomskys theories of language can never be.
Dudes whole career is getting relegated to the dust-bin.
The same thing happened when CNNs started beating "traditional" computer vision algorithms. There was a lot of push back from computer vision scientists because it basically obsoleted a good chunk of their field.
What are Chomsky's theories of language? And how are they relegated to the dustbin? I'm curious.