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Chomsky VS Okon (excerpt of landmark series -The Internet Sessions)
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Chomsky VS Okon - The Internet Sessions Vol.1 Excerpt
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by marc okon | May 19, 2009 - 10:00pm Share
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Marc Okon
http://www.linkedin.com/in/marcokon
speaking to
Professor Chomsky,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noam_chomsky
While reading one of your many unauthorized biographies, i saw a giant poster of
Bertrand Russell,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bertrand_russell
attached to your office door,
and was reminded of one…
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Intro to the Chomsky category
Here’s a brief email conversation I had with the man. Marc Okon will be interviewing him and asked me for a question he could ask on my behalf.
Well, the evaluation is up to other people that want to send emails. The software just combines their decisions.
On the other hand, of course they can be evaluated mechanically - isn’t that how your spam filter works? So I’m not sure if we’re understanding each other.
What I’m trying to do is spread this meme: a judgment that one idea is better than another is better than…
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For the last fifteen years, ever since I retired after twenty years as a junior high school math teacher, I drove a medallion cab in New York City. Each day without fail someone asked me why I chose a second career as a cabby. I would like to explore that issue publicly, right now.
Obviously, I like to drive. More importantly, driving a cab affords me a comfortable living. Every year my wife and I take a month long vacation. Over the years, we explored romantic cities like…
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