Lawrence Krauss in discussion with Chomsky. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ml1G919Bts0 … Chomsky seems to not only deny group differences, but also believes
@SR71999 Chomsky is a smart guy. I'm not sure why he has such a huge blind spot/nurture bias
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@HbdNrx Don't get me started. I know his linguistics and contributions to CS pretty well. He is, in fact, brilliant. Even his academic -
@HbdNrx enemies like Lakoff (who can't seem to stand him admit that.) But he is an avowed anarchist, who also sees the world through -
@HbdNrx the lenses of oppression which lead him to some ridiculous conclusions. Only he's so intelligent, he can find arguments. -
@HbdNrx Also, I think he gets off on being a contrarian. -
@SR71999 this is certainly not a contrarian position. His anarchist stuff wouldn't even be bad if he weren't so dumb about HBD -
@HbdNrx I'm not saying most of his stuff is. I'm saying he seems to relish taking one whenever he can. Disagree partially. His anarchism is -
@HbdNrx also stupid. He thinks, for example, that the "secular religion of the state" is far more dangerous than any other ideology--which -
@HbdNrx of course would include murder of apostates under ultra orthodox Islam, for example.
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