Eliezer wrote:
"Natural" language isn't. Humans have one specific idiosyncratic built-in grammar, and we might have serious trouble learning to communicate in anything else - especially if the language was being used by a mind quite unlike our own.
Well, some humans have learned to communicate in Lojban quite effectively. It's slow and sometimes painful and sometimes delightful, but definitely possible, and there is no NL syntax involved...
Even a "programming language" is still something that humans made, and how many people do you know who can *seriously*, not-jokingly, think in syntactical C++ the way they can think in English?
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