Sashi: It's pretty clear by now that humans appeared on Earth very recently, modern humans, two to three hundred thousand years ago. So nothing in evolutionary time. With that indicates that these capacities were already in place before the separation. We know that they all share the faculty of language and thought there's needs to be no distinction among living humans,. including descendants of those who separated maybe 150,000 years ago.
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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