Ask Noam Chomsky Anything (Reddit Video Interview)
1–10 of 15 posts
Re: Ask Noam Chomsky Anything (Reddit Video Interview)
#2Wow, I was pleasantly surprised by the questions the redditors are suggesting. A good, intelligent mix of both political and linguistics related questions.
Re: Ask Noam Chomsky Anything (Reddit Video Interview)
#3Question for Chomsky:
Imagine a sci fi story in which a government creates a drug that makes people acutely aware of the nation's problems yet totally apathetic about them, reducing the risk that some awful truth will be revealed that might lead to revolution.
Is the Internet this drug? Is there anything at all that you could possibly say in this interview session that would motivate a single person watching to change his/her life course to take action?
Re: Ask Noam Chomsky Anything (Reddit Video Interview)
#4Wow, I was pleasantly surprised by the questions the redditors are suggesting. A good, intelligent mix of both political and linguistics related questions.
Indeed, I was expecting something more along the lines of http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fOIM1_xOSro
Re: Ask Noam Chomsky Anything (Reddit Video Interview)
#5Question for Chomsky: Imagine a sci fi story in which a government creates a drug that makes people acutely aware of the nation's problems yet totally apathetic about them, reducing the risk that some awful truth will be revealed that might lead to revolution. Is the Internet this drug? Is there anything at all that you could possibly say in this interview session that would motivate a single person watching to chang…
people are not aware of the actual ills of the world. unlike the average joe Chomsky has no excuse for his elementary econ 101 mistakes. he is an entertainer first, educator second.
Re: Ask Noam Chomsky Anything (Reddit Video Interview)
#6Question for Chomsky: Imagine a sci fi story in which a government creates a drug that makes people acutely aware of the nation's problems yet totally apathetic about them, reducing the risk that some awful truth will be revealed that might lead to revolution. Is the Internet this drug? Is there anything at all that you could possibly say in this interview session that would motivate a single person watching to chang…
people are not aware of the actual ills of the world. unlike the average joe Chomsky has no excuse for his elementary econ 101 mistakes. he is an entertainer first, educator second.
As a guess, by "elementary econ 101 mistakes" do you mean he doesn't adopt the (quite arbitrary) Ayn Rand Axiom System?
Re: Ask Noam Chomsky Anything (Reddit Video Interview)
#7Earlier quoted context omitted.
people are not aware of the actual ills of the world. unlike the average joe Chomsky has no excuse for his elementary econ 101 mistakes. he is an entertainer first, educator second.
As a guess, by "elementary econ 101 mistakes" do you mean he doesn't adopt the (quite arbitrary) Ayn Rand Axiom System?
I think Chomsky's most valuable intellectual contribution is his focus on South/Central America and the atrocities that America funds there.
Re: Ask Noam Chomsky Anything (Reddit Video Interview)
#8Earlier quoted context omitted.
people are not aware of the actual ills of the world. unlike the average joe Chomsky has no excuse for his elementary econ 101 mistakes. he is an entertainer first, educator second.
As a guess, by "elementary econ 101 mistakes" do you mean he doesn't adopt the (quite arbitrary) Ayn Rand Axiom System?
Oh please, you're going to deny that A is A??
Looter!!!!
Re: Ask Noam Chomsky Anything (Reddit Video Interview)
#9Earlier quoted context omitted.
As a guess, by "elementary econ 101 mistakes" do you mean he doesn't adopt the (quite arbitrary) Ayn Rand Axiom System?
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
Re: Ask Noam Chomsky Anything (Reddit Video Interview)
#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
people are not aware of the actual ills of the world. unlike the average joe Chomsky has no excuse for his elementary econ 101 mistakes. he is an entertainer first, educator second.
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?