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Why Do Corporations Speak the Way They Do?
16m read · 302 saves · Feb 20 · The pernicious spread of garbage language.
If You Can Say It, You Can Feel It
8m read · 290 saves · Feb 03 · Some scientists believe we have infinite emotions, so long as we can name them.
AI Is Inventing Languages Humans Can’t Understand. Should We Worry?
4m read · 214 saves · 07/14/17 · Researchers at Facebook realized their bots were chattering in a new language. Then they stopped it.
Ranked: The 100 Most Spoken Languages Around the World
17m read · 177 saves · Feb 15 · Iman Ghosh · This detailed visualization breaks down the 100 most spoken languages around the world, by total and native speakers. Can you…
Human speech may have a universal transmission rate: 39 bits per second
2m read · 150 saves · 09/04/19 · No matter how quickly you speak, you still share the same amount of information
Consciousness Doesn’t Depend on Language
9m read · 124 saves · 09/26/19 · The contrast could not have been starker—here was one of the world’s most revered figures, His Holiness the Fourteenth Dalai…
The Strange Persistence of First Languages
14m read · 109 saves · 04/16/19 · Several years ago, my father died as he had done most things throughout his life: without preparation and without consulting…
An Artificial Intelligence Developed Its Own Non-Human Language
17m read · Paywall possible · 106 saves · 06/15/17 · When Facebook trained chatbots to negotiate with one another, the bots made up their own way of communicating.
Language Is the Scaffold of the Mind
5m read · 100 saves · 09/26/19 · Can you imagine a mind without language? More specifically, can you imagine your mind without language? Can you think, plan,…