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Chomsky was doing so many podcasts up to the moment he disappeared from the radar presumably due to medical issues. I've seen him going for 2 hours with some no

by lz400 2y ago

Chomsky was doing so many podcasts up to the moment he disappeared from the radar presumably due to medical issues. I've seen him going for 2 hours with some nobody with 5K followers, being asked juvenile and stupid questions and answering with the patient of a Saint. He looked quite diminished physically, elderly and frail but mentally he's always sharp and his recall and memory is scary. I feel that in his later years he made a conscious effort to talk to young people and made them aware of the history and depth of the problems the world is facing, and he used very modern avenues to do so, like podcast interviews. I will always have the highest degree of respect for this man and an admiration for his integrity, sensitivity and scholarship.

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bbor 2y ago
I’ve spent so much time watching this kind of content (plus the older lectures that are available) over almost a year of chores, lunches, and walks that it’s honestly bordering on parasocial. I of course don’t regret a minute; if you check these recent videos out it’s clear that he reiterates the same points over and over, but it never quite gets tiresome. Rather it gives the impression of someone who has truly glimpsed the structure of the universe, and thus is consistently going back to those same principles. Of course, I would recommend choosing “one half of his brain” (his terms) and not mixing the politics interviews with the cognitive science / philosophy ones lol. I haven’t looked for many linguistics talks of his from recent years, but I had the impression he was working on seriously technical stuff there right up until he couldn’t, too. I don’t know how I hope to sleep after this comment… I guess I’ll do him the honor of trying to rationalize my emotional/ethical interests, and care less about the passing of a world-renowned twice-(happily-)married scholar than the passing of children from war and famine. I hope he believes in us to finish his life’s work, answering the most fundamental question: “What kind of creatures are we?” He was never able to see his theories in the recent LLM breakthroughs, but we’re in the early stages of the Chomskian era of AI, philosophy, and human endeavors writ large, I think… the ChatGPT outage from earlier this year couldn’t have supported him any better without having said “colorless green ideas sleep furiously” outright!
TiredOfLife 2y ago
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- zkid18 2y ago
  Have I overlooked anything? I'm not sure if, at the age of 95, he needs money from Russia
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rulalala 2y ago
Please do you have in mind a sample of this content oriented for younger generations? Thanks for your time and consideration.
- lz400 2y ago
  If you go to youtube and look for chomsky interview or chomsky podcast and find the recent ones (the ones where he looks terrible!). There are hundreds I think. Some examples I had in my recent watch history https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zKQOrAyXM5U https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zKQOrAyXM5U https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1i44WfeAzhg&t=366s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1i44WfeAzhg&t=366s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WAnG0gnp1sA&t=3046s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WAnG0gnp1sA&t=3046s

by lz400 2y ago

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bbor 2y ago

I’ve spent so much time watching this kind of content (plus the older lectures that are available) over almost a year of chores, lunches, and walks that it’s honestly bordering on parasocial. I of course don’t regret a minute; if you check these recent videos out it’s clear that he reiterates the same points over and over, but it never quite gets tiresome. Rather it gives the impression of someone who has truly glimpsed the structure of the universe, and thus is consistently going back to those same principles. Of course, I would recommend choosing “one half of his brain” (his terms) and not mixing the politics interviews with the cognitive science / philosophy ones lol. I haven’t looked for many linguistics talks of his from recent years, but I had the impression he was working on seriously technical stuff there right up until he couldn’t, too. I don’t know how I hope to sleep after this comment… I guess I’ll do him the honor of trying to rationalize my emotional/ethical interests, and care less about the passing of a world-renowned twice-(happily-)married scholar than the passing of children from war and famine. I hope he believes in us to finish his life’s work, answering the most fundamental question: “What kind of creatures are we?” He was never able to see his theories in the recent LLM breakthroughs, but we’re in the early stages of the Chomskian era of AI, philosophy, and human endeavors writ large, I think… the ChatGPT outage from earlier this year couldn’t have supported him any better without having said “colorless green ideas sleep furiously” outright!

TiredOfLife 2y ago

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zkid18 2y ago
Have I overlooked anything? I'm not sure if, at the age of 95, he needs money from Russia
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rulalala 2y ago

Please do you have in mind a sample of this content oriented for younger generations? Thanks for your time and consideration.

lz400 2y ago
If you go to youtube and look for chomsky interview or chomsky podcast and find the recent ones (the ones where he looks terrible!). There are hundreds I think. Some examples I had in my recent watch history https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zKQOrAyXM5U https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zKQOrAyXM5U https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1i44WfeAzhg&t=366s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1i44WfeAzhg&t=366s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WAnG0gnp1sA&t=3046s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WAnG0gnp1sA&t=3046s