The way that human beings actually learn and use language is highly compartmentalized, compositional. But at the same time, we are very bad at realizing how we think about things. So maybe the lesson is just not that it's better to have a featureless neural network that trains itself randomly, but just that don't let human beings be the ones to decide how the neural network should organize itself.

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