Apr 2, 2023·edited Apr 2, 2023Liked by Bentham's Bulldog
No question Chomsky is great intellectual, but his recent NYtimes article on AI was pretty unsophisticated. [I also think his review of Skinner is a little less decisive than it's often considered to be.]
Really glad to see him condemn it. Chomsky and Peter Singer are probably the two most influential people on my worldview, and I had also always found his comments on animals disappointing. But I wonder if that means he's vegan now, as last time I heard him talk about it he said he eats 'very little meat.'
Btw, did you change your mind on humane meat? A couple months ago you commented you didn't think it was permissible and linked this https://philpapers.org/rec/JOHCAN
Don't know much about Chomsky and would be interested in reading something short of his, nevertheless I have a generally low opinion of many of his fans and such, not sure how well this reflects his work outside of linguistics, but from what direct evidence I have seen of him, he seems oddly "conspiratorial"/suspicious of things (especially in the language he uses), and not in a way that seems smart or deep. When I was more interested in him (a couple years ago) I made a mental list of pretty clear factual errors he made, some involving Herbert Spencer and James M. Buchanan and others alas, I forgot most of the entries on this list but I remember it being concerning enough for me to take everything he says with a heavy grain of salt.
No question Chomsky is great intellectual, but his recent NYtimes article on AI was pretty unsophisticated. [I also think his review of Skinner is a little less decisive than it's often considered to be.]
Good to see him take a stance on this.
Really glad to see him condemn it. Chomsky and Peter Singer are probably the two most influential people on my worldview, and I had also always found his comments on animals disappointing. But I wonder if that means he's vegan now, as last time I heard him talk about it he said he eats 'very little meat.'
Btw, did you change your mind on humane meat? A couple months ago you commented you didn't think it was permissible and linked this https://philpapers.org/rec/JOHCAN
Don't know much about Chomsky and would be interested in reading something short of his, nevertheless I have a generally low opinion of many of his fans and such, not sure how well this reflects his work outside of linguistics, but from what direct evidence I have seen of him, he seems oddly "conspiratorial"/suspicious of things (especially in the language he uses), and not in a way that seems smart or deep. When I was more interested in him (a couple years ago) I made a mental list of pretty clear factual errors he made, some involving Herbert Spencer and James M. Buchanan and others alas, I forgot most of the entries on this list but I remember it being concerning enough for me to take everything he says with a heavy grain of salt.