The discussion frames the Chomsky–Norvig debate as a clash between engineering and science: statistical methods and LLMs can be powerful tools without revealing how humans learn or use language, much as aeronautical engineering does not explain how birds fly. Commenters argue that Chomsky dismisses statistics too broadly while his influence in linguistics wanes, and they question claims that LLMs are the closest model of human language learning given children’s far greater data efficiency and likely innate linguistic knowledge.