There cannot be a nuclear war between major powers, the country that launches a first strike will be destroyed. Even if there's no retaliatory strike, just from the effects of nuclear winter. People like former Defense Secretary William Perry have been his whole life in the nuclear establishment. He says he's terrified, doubly terrified, terrified once because we're racing towards disaster day by day. Sometimes it's just astonishing. So the Pew polling agency, a couple of weeks ago, came out with the give regular studies of public attitudes on all sorts of things,. The latest one gave people a couple of dozen choices of issues and asked them to rank them in terms of urgency. Nuclear war was not even
Noam Chomsky joins Tyler to discuss why Noam and Wilhelm von Humboldt have similar views on language and liberty, good and bad evolutionary approaches to language, what he thinks Stephen Wolfram gets wrong about LLMs, whether he’s optimistic about the future, what he thinks of Thomas Schelling, the legacy of the 1960s-era left libertarians, the development trajectories of Nicaragua and Cuba, why he still answers every email, what he’s been most wrong about, and more.
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Recorded February 27th, 2023
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