Hacker News with Generative AI: Noam Chomsky

Chomsky on what ChatGPT is good for (2023) (chomsky.info)
Artificial intelligence (AI) is sweeping the world. It is transforming every walk of life and raising in the process major ethical concerns for society and the future of humanity.

Artificial Intelligence, Linguistics, Noam Chomsky

286 points by mef 33 days ago | 359 comments

Noam Chomsky at 96 (theconversation.com)
Noam Chomsky, one of the world’s most famous and respected intellectuals, will be 96 years old on Dec. 7, 2024. For more than half a century, multitudes of people have read his works in a variety of languages, and many people have relied on his commentaries and interviews for insights about intellectual debates and current events.

Noam Chomsky, Intellectuals, Linguistics, Politics, Academia

3 points by lr0 192 days ago | 0 comments

Noam Chomsky Has Been Proved Right (foreignpolicy.com)
For more than half a century, Noam Chomsky has been arguably the world’s most persistent, uncompromising, and intellectually respected critic of contemporary U.S. foreign policy. In a steady stream of books, articles, interviews, and speeches, he has repeatedly sought to expose Washington’s costly and inhumane approach to the rest of the world, an approach he believes has harmed millions and is contrary to the United States’ professed values. As co-author Nathan J.

Politics, Foreign Policy, United States, Noam Chomsky

12 points by foobarqux 224 days ago | 7 comments

What the World Is Like: Who Knows It – and Why (1983) (chomsky.info)
You’ve written about the way that professional ideologists and the mandarins obfuscate reality. And you have spoken — in some places you call it a “Cartesian common sense” — of the commonsense capacities of people. Indeed, you place a significant emphasis on this common sense when you reveal the ideological aspects of arguments, especially in contemporary social science. What do you mean by common sense? What does it mean in a society like ours?