Will Manidis Says LLMs Won't Obsolete Language Learning

Will Manidis, New York entrepreneur and investor who founded ScienceIO, tweeted that the idea LLMs will make language learning obsolete is incoherent. He stated machine-to-machine communication will be ubiquitously English, similar to how code works, but the returns to IRL trusted in-group speech will be infinite. The post appears under his Investor tag and addresses a common claim about translation becoming free and universal.