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I don't understand. What is it about Chomsky's work that disgusts you? Or is this a reference to his political opinions?

cubefox 10mo ago
Read the article above. There is a link at the top of this submission to an essay by Peter Norvig, arguing (correctly, in retrospect) that Chomsky's approach to language modelling is mistaken.
- andyjohnson0 10mo ago
  Obviously I did read the article. And I know how the hn site works. I have a passing familiarity with the debate over Chomsky's theories of universal grammar etc. I didn't notice anything in the article that would cause disgust, and so I wondered what I was failing to understand.
  - cubefox 10mo ago
    If you have read many books by Chomsky, it might make you angry that you have wasted so much time on what turned out to be a fundamentally mistaken theory.
    - cubefox 10mo ago
      The people who downvoted this apparently didn't read the article.
      - andyjohnson0 10mo ago
        Isn't "theory turned out to be wrong" just the price of doing science? And its a good thing: something has been learned.
darubedarob 10mo ago
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- wanderlust123 10mo ago
  Sounds like bit of an over-reaction if I am being honest. Some of his books are deeply insightful even if you decide to draw the opposite conclusion. I wouldn’t say anything would create disgust unless you had a conclusion you wanted supported before reading the book. Regarding the Epstein thing, bizarre to bring that up when discussing his works, seems like you hate him on a personal level.
  - kroaton 10mo ago
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    - wanderlust123 10mo ago
      Pretty massive stretch making that inference based on the data don’t you think? Or is this an underhand way to get back at someone you disagree with politically?
      - darubedarob 10mo ago
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pmkary 10mo ago
The fact that he wrote volumes about manufacturing consent, death of the American dream and Israel's invasion of Palestine while he used to travel in luxurious jets with Epstein who was everything that he pretended to fight against.

cubefox 10mo ago

Read the article above. There is a link at the top of this submission to an essay by Peter Norvig, arguing (correctly, in retrospect) that Chomsky's approach to language modelling is mistaken.

andyjohnson0 10mo ago
Obviously I did read the article. And I know how the hn site works. I have a passing familiarity with the debate over Chomsky's theories of universal grammar etc. I didn't notice anything in the article that would cause disgust, and so I wondered what I was failing to understand.
- cubefox 10mo ago
  If you have read many books by Chomsky, it might make you angry that you have wasted so much time on what turned out to be a fundamentally mistaken theory.
  - cubefox 10mo ago
    The people who downvoted this apparently didn't read the article.
    - andyjohnson0 10mo ago
      Isn't "theory turned out to be wrong" just the price of doing science? And its a good thing: something has been learned.

darubedarob 10mo ago

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wanderlust123 10mo ago
Sounds like bit of an over-reaction if I am being honest. Some of his books are deeply insightful even if you decide to draw the opposite conclusion. I wouldn’t say anything would create disgust unless you had a conclusion you wanted supported before reading the book. Regarding the Epstein thing, bizarre to bring that up when discussing his works, seems like you hate him on a personal level.
- kroaton 10mo ago
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  - wanderlust123 10mo ago
    Pretty massive stretch making that inference based on the data don’t you think? Or is this an underhand way to get back at someone you disagree with politically?
    - darubedarob 10mo ago
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pmkary 10mo ago

The fact that he wrote volumes about manufacturing consent, death of the American dream and Israel's invasion of Palestine while he used to travel in luxurious jets with Epstein who was everything that he pretended to fight against.