If you look back at what used to be perfectly acceptable, you can see we've come a long way. The U.S. had anti-miscegenation laws so extreme that the Nazis refused to accept them. In Glasgow, there was a meeting going on inside the halls where the elegant ladies and gentlemen were doing nothing. And outside in the streets, there were tens of thousands of young people demonstrating.
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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