Cuba is the oldest issue in US foreign policy. Goes back to 1820s when the US intended to try to conquer take Cuba from Spain and turn it into another slave state. Wouldn't Cuba be better off today if it had gone the path of say Dominican Republic, inviting a lot of multinational corporations?
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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