Yes! This is a brilliant explanation of why language use is not the same as intelligence, and why LLMs like chatGPT are not intelligence. At all.

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    […] in blog posts and videos and published memoirs, autistic teens and young adults described living for a decade or more without any way to communicate, while people around them assumed they were intellectually deficient.

    On a related note… only 5% of hearing parents with a deaf child will learn sign language.

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      That’s awful. I don’t know why sign language isn’t made into an official state language that everyone has to learn some basic amount of proficiency

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        Amen! And it would benefit literally everybody. You can communicate across a room or in loud environments. It’s so useful!

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            i bet these bastards would somehow learn to interpret the changes in air pressure you’d create when signing… that’s how you create supervillain.

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            This gets me wondering: In sign languages, are there different words for “hearing” (i.e. looking someone sign to you) vs “seeing” (i.e. looking at something that isn’t signing?

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      also those parents could be close relatives, so they could fuck up their offspring genome by transferring recessive genes to them from both sides, and thus a recessive phenotype to be expressed, which most of the time is a disability. shouldnt expect much from such parents