Noam Chomsky Quotes (Year 533)
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This piece by Raymond Pierrehumbert (Bulletin of Atomic Scientists) was noted by Noam Chomsky back in 2019. It's really staggering when you understand the true magnitude of the problem.
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#NotAChomskyQuote A snippet from Marko Papic's book "Geopolitical Alpha"
November 24, 2025 at 2:34 AM
#NotAChomskyQuote A snippet from Marko Papic's book "Geopolitical Alpha"
Since humans...are sometimes warlike, it follows that their intrinsic nature permits this outcome under certain circumstances. Under other circumstances they prefer peace—normally I think. But it’s highly misleading to say that they are “innately warlike” or “innately peaceloving”
November 19, 2025 at 7:37 PM
Since humans...are sometimes warlike, it follows that their intrinsic nature permits this outcome under certain circumstances. Under other circumstances they prefer peace—normally I think. But it’s highly misleading to say that they are “innately warlike” or “innately peaceloving”
Noam Chomsky: The False Promise of ChatGPT
March 8, 2023
March 8, 2023
November 17, 2025 at 5:36 AM
Noam Chomsky: The False Promise of ChatGPT
March 8, 2023
March 8, 2023
I should also say that neoliberalism, what’s discussed, the crisis of neoliberalism, its collapse was not in 2008. It was in 1982. That’s when neoliberalism collapsed when in Chile, when the Pinochet government came into power, pushed into power by the United States. (1/2)
November 14, 2025 at 5:03 PM
I should also say that neoliberalism, what’s discussed, the crisis of neoliberalism, its collapse was not in 2008. It was in 1982. That’s when neoliberalism collapsed when in Chile, when the Pinochet government came into power, pushed into power by the United States. (1/2)
#NotAChomskyQuote Here's another amusing excerpt from Akerlof & Shiller's 2010 book "Animal Spirits: How Human Psychology Drives the Economy, and Why It Matters for Global Capitalism"
November 13, 2025 at 3:09 AM
#NotAChomskyQuote Here's another amusing excerpt from Akerlof & Shiller's 2010 book "Animal Spirits: How Human Psychology Drives the Economy, and Why It Matters for Global Capitalism"
Those whom Adam Smith called “the masters of mankind,” the dominant business classes, would never tolerate capitalism, which would expose them to the ravages of the market. That’s for the victims. (1/2)
November 12, 2025 at 10:47 PM
Those whom Adam Smith called “the masters of mankind,” the dominant business classes, would never tolerate capitalism, which would expose them to the ravages of the market. That’s for the victims. (1/2)
#NotAChomskyQuote Here's an excerpt from Akerlof & Shiller's 2010 book "Animal Spirits: How Human Psychology Drives the Economy, and Why It Matters for Global Capitalism"
November 10, 2025 at 1:01 AM
#NotAChomskyQuote Here's an excerpt from Akerlof & Shiller's 2010 book "Animal Spirits: How Human Psychology Drives the Economy, and Why It Matters for Global Capitalism"
#NotAChomskyQuote Dwoskin, Elizabeth. "Inside the billionaire network shaping MAGA's post-Trump future." Washington Post, November 4, 2025. #ChrisBuskirk #RockbridgeNetwork #RebekahMercer
November 9, 2025 at 11:24 PM
#NotAChomskyQuote Dwoskin, Elizabeth. "Inside the billionaire network shaping MAGA's post-Trump future." Washington Post, November 4, 2025. #ChrisBuskirk #RockbridgeNetwork #RebekahMercer
OED has a fascinating quote in its 3.a entry for "titan"
"Near the Jerome Avenue entrance, former titans of industry hunker together for eternity." -- Spy (New York) June 36/5
"Near the Jerome Avenue entrance, former titans of industry hunker together for eternity." -- Spy (New York) June 36/5
November 9, 2025 at 5:07 PM
OED has a fascinating quote in its 3.a entry for "titan"
"Near the Jerome Avenue entrance, former titans of industry hunker together for eternity." -- Spy (New York) June 36/5
"Near the Jerome Avenue entrance, former titans of industry hunker together for eternity." -- Spy (New York) June 36/5
Unless carefully controlled, AI engineering can pose severe threats. Suppose, for example, that care of patients was automated. The inevitable errors that would be overcome by human judgment could produce a horror story. (1/2)
November 9, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Unless carefully controlled, AI engineering can pose severe threats. Suppose, for example, that care of patients was automated. The inevitable errors that would be overcome by human judgment could produce a horror story. (1/2)
November 9, 2025 at 3:36 AM
Libertarian socialism says that enterprises ought to be owned and managed in a democratic fashion by the people who participate in them. Our current system is totalitarian. Orders come from the top and they are transmitted down, and at the very bottom you are allowed to rent yourself to survive.
November 8, 2025 at 8:13 PM
Libertarian socialism says that enterprises ought to be owned and managed in a democratic fashion by the people who participate in them. Our current system is totalitarian. Orders come from the top and they are transmitted down, and at the very bottom you are allowed to rent yourself to survive.
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It's the story of our time.
The Authoritarian Stack: How Tech Billionaires Are Building a Post-Democratic American—And Why Europe Is Next.
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It's the story of our time.
The Authoritarian Stack: How Tech Billionaires Are Building a Post-Democratic American—And Why Europe Is Next.
www.authoritarian-stack.info
The Authoritarian Stack
How Tech Billionaires Are Building a Post-Democratic America — And Why Europe Is Next
www.authoritarian-stack.info
November 5, 2025 at 11:36 PM
Please take a minute to scroll through this—and share it.
It's the story of our time.
The Authoritarian Stack: How Tech Billionaires Are Building a Post-Democratic American—And Why Europe Is Next.
www.authoritarian-stack.info
It's the story of our time.
The Authoritarian Stack: How Tech Billionaires Are Building a Post-Democratic American—And Why Europe Is Next.
www.authoritarian-stack.info
#NotAChomskyQuote According to the WSJ Editorial Board, Mamdani didn't get elected; rather, he captured New York. Then, they fret over capital flight because, you know, leftist.
November 5, 2025 at 7:43 PM
#NotAChomskyQuote According to the WSJ Editorial Board, Mamdani didn't get elected; rather, he captured New York. Then, they fret over capital flight because, you know, leftist.
One of the things that’s been discovered that surprised contemporary scientists and anthropologists is that, quite commonly when the West goes into some cultures like Liberia and proposes scientific agriculture, its yields decline. (1/3)
October 31, 2025 at 2:56 AM
One of the things that’s been discovered that surprised contemporary scientists and anthropologists is that, quite commonly when the West goes into some cultures like Liberia and proposes scientific agriculture, its yields decline. (1/3)
#NotAChomskyQuote Nothing bad will happen...
October 31, 2025 at 2:49 AM
#NotAChomskyQuote Nothing bad will happen...
#NotAChomskyQuote Nothing bad will happen...
October 29, 2025 at 4:36 PM
#NotAChomskyQuote Nothing bad will happen...
In short, ChatGPT and its brethren are constitutionally unable to balance creativity with constraint. (1/3)
October 29, 2025 at 2:46 AM
In short, ChatGPT and its brethren are constitutionally unable to balance creativity with constraint. (1/3)
The human mind is not, like ChatGPT and its ilk, a lumbering statistical engine for pattern matching, gorging on hundreds of terabytes of data and extrapolating the most likely conversational response or most probable answer to a scientific question. (1/2)
October 29, 2025 at 2:23 AM
The human mind is not, like ChatGPT and its ilk, a lumbering statistical engine for pattern matching, gorging on hundreds of terabytes of data and extrapolating the most likely conversational response or most probable answer to a scientific question. (1/2)
#NotAChomskyQuote Nothing bad will happen...
October 26, 2025 at 7:08 PM
#NotAChomskyQuote Nothing bad will happen...
[T]he LLM systems are designed in such a way that they cannot tell us anything about language, learning, or other aspects of cognition, a matter of principle, irremediable. (1/3)
October 26, 2025 at 2:31 PM
[T]he LLM systems are designed in such a way that they cannot tell us anything about language, learning, or other aspects of cognition, a matter of principle, irremediable. (1/3)
#NotAChomskyQuote There's a bit about Idi Amin in the latest issue of the Economist ("A pioneer of mass deportation").
"It turned out the [deported] Asians had valuable skills, from book-keeping to running factories to dentistry"
"It turned out the [deported] Asians had valuable skills, from book-keeping to running factories to dentistry"
October 25, 2025 at 7:22 PM
#NotAChomskyQuote There's a bit about Idi Amin in the latest issue of the Economist ("A pioneer of mass deportation").
"It turned out the [deported] Asians had valuable skills, from book-keeping to running factories to dentistry"
"It turned out the [deported] Asians had valuable skills, from book-keeping to running factories to dentistry"
#NotAChomskyQuote An interesting excerpt from the book "Busting the Bankers' Club" by Gerald Epstein.
October 22, 2025 at 11:01 PM
#NotAChomskyQuote An interesting excerpt from the book "Busting the Bankers' Club" by Gerald Epstein.
#NotAChomskyQuote I watched a recent interview with Willem Middelkoop on GoldRepublic Global in which he references this interesting 2015 book.
October 18, 2025 at 9:00 PM
#NotAChomskyQuote I watched a recent interview with Willem Middelkoop on GoldRepublic Global in which he references this interesting 2015 book.