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Ask Noam Chomsky Anything (Reddit Video Interview)

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I think Chomsky's most valuable intellectual contribution is his focus on South/Central America and the atrocities that America funds there.

From a computer science perspective, I'd at least acknowledge his contributions to the theory of formal languages: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chomsky_hierarchy

Certainly a valuable contribution, but I suspect someone else would have figured that out fairly soon if he hadn't. On the other hand, nobody else in the US cares about what the US does in South/Central America.

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As a guess, by "elementary econ 101 mistakes" do you mean he doesn't adopt the (quite arbitrary) Ayn Rand Axiom System?

no, i'm talking about marginal utility and ordinal preference ranking. ?_? not really sure where you pulled the randroid insinuation from?

Actually Chomsky and Rand share a similar view of Crony Capitalism and a corrupt regulatory state.

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no, i'm talking about marginal utility and ordinal preference ranking. ?_? not really sure where you pulled the randroid insinuation from?

Actually Chomsky and Rand share a similar view of Crony Capitalism and a corrupt regulatory state.

and rand was wrong about much as well.

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Actually Chomsky and Rand share a similar view of Crony Capitalism and a corrupt regulatory state.

and rand was wrong about much as well.

Not sure what your point is. Everyone is wrong about something.

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and rand was wrong about much as well.

Not sure what your point is. Everyone is wrong about something.

right, I don't know much about micro-biology. therefore I don't go spouting off about it. rand (and chompsky) routinely spouted off about things that were out of their domain.

http://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?db=comics&id=1776

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