Noam Chomsky
by Lyons, John · first published 1970
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Crucially, pages 129 and 130 are blank, leaving a big chunk of the conclusion in limbo. Then, an hour later, they are back, like magic. 12th August 2014, 22.30 BST
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…Hilarious, perfectly frivolous, light and sunny * Non-fiction Stuart Russell - Human Compatible: AI and the Problem of Control. Potential bad outcomes from AI and what we might be able to do about them Noam Chomsky - Necessary Illusions: Thought Control in Democratic Societies. How public discourse is shaped and controlled Karl Popper - The Open Society and its Enemies. How to work against totalitarianism
on “Ask HN: Which books you have read till now that were worth investing time in?” ↗This war is about more than just Putin. Research: George Friedman, Peter Zeihan, John Mearsheimer, Peter Hitchens, Noam Chomsky (more of an ideologue), etc. on this issue. You can start on YouTube OR read their books, I guess.
on “Explosions in Kiev and Kharkiv now [CNN]” ↗…theory. What really pisses me off is all is welcomed by the far right conservatives in the western democracies. Anybody against their plans gets dismissed as a lunatic paranoid. In "What We Say Goes" Noam Chomsky mentions the case of government agencies feeding the media with small bits of John F. Kennedy's assassination.
on “Ask HN: Why does nobody want to talk about Zeitgeist?” ↗