tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5880610.post6585113717635676578..comments2024-01-13T18:57:18.243-05:00Comments on Information Processing: Chomsky animatedSteve Hsuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02428333897272913660noreply@blogger.comBlogger13125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5880610.post-1327360863635928312013-11-25T13:16:16.068-05:002013-11-25T13:16:16.068-05:00"there are respectable physicists who think s...<i>"there are respectable physicists who think string theory is rot."</i><br /><br /><br />And why not? Any hypothesis that can not be verified through experimentation is only abstract and not real.oregonlocalhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RRh0QiXyZSknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5880610.post-60598172576839567262013-11-25T06:42:32.582-05:002013-11-25T06:42:32.582-05:00if you're running a group with as many as 40 p...if you're running a group with as many as 40 people in it, and you need results to keep your funding, you should have an inkling. and only a small minority of the loyal gop has ever run a business.<br /><br />"most progress is due to the intense efforts of a small number of people" but how many try and fail? it's just as true for science. perhaps not theoretical physics, but forDiogenesnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5880610.post-17017576221355172052013-11-25T06:36:07.966-05:002013-11-25T06:36:07.966-05:00but chomsky's not really talking about politic...but chomsky's not really talking about politics at all. he's talking about a selection for obedience generally, a selection for going along. and his observation is true of all institutions academia, business, govt, church, whatever. it might be expressed with "is the pope catholic?" that is, if one thinks the roman church is all rot, he's unlikely to ever become a priest, Diogenesnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5880610.post-20435474872887436762013-11-25T06:19:19.894-05:002013-11-25T06:19:19.894-05:00marx wasn't the blank slater you might think h...marx wasn't the blank slater you might think he was. marx's metaphysics wasn't vulgar materialism either. it was much more akin to that of the irreligious rich. for marx, economics was ultimate reality.Diogenesnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5880610.post-47448486627362422562013-11-24T21:19:12.115-05:002013-11-24T21:19:12.115-05:00I view this: most progress is due to the intense e...I view this: <i>most progress is due to the intense efforts of a small number of people, etc.</i> as a defect, not a feature. When people attack problems that require a group to solve, they identify how they are going to proceed, and when the solving ceases to proceed it falls apart. Team leadership, practically speaking, is not robust. Knowing how you are going to recover your team and keep David Coughlinnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5880610.post-89361119392140228582013-11-24T20:05:55.007-05:002013-11-24T20:05:55.007-05:00Is it really weeding out or are there hidden corre...Is it really weeding out or are there hidden correlations somewhere? For example, I don't think there is much pressure for political conformism among science faculty. At least, I know conservative physicists, mathematicians, computer scientists, etc. who don't seem to suffer professionally for their political beliefs. Yet, the O v. R imbalance you speak of is pretty high even in this steve hsuhttp://duende.uoregon.edu/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5880610.post-4809267512891899022013-11-24T14:12:43.985-05:002013-11-24T14:12:43.985-05:00An obvious measure of the magnitude of selection v...An obvious measure of the magnitude of selection via political view is the fraction of Obama voters vs. Romney voters among tenured faculty at selective institutions. The parent populations are evenly divided, and the result of the selection process can be unambiguously measured. One group is simply weeded out somewhere along the line.LondonYoungnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5880610.post-82731838037114144102013-11-23T12:59:18.206-05:002013-11-23T12:59:18.206-05:00Chomsky. Greatest American academic of the late 20...Chomsky. Greatest American academic of the late 20th Century. Sorry, guys he won. The anti-Chomskites all lost. Look around you. Sourgrapes.<br /><br /><br />As far as breaking up Jew media/business/academic power. I'm all for that. I'd like to see the establishment independent media centers around the world. But I don't see the Jews actively preventing this from arising. It's notHaciendanoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5880610.post-13823630023401817452013-11-23T09:04:21.797-05:002013-11-23T09:04:21.797-05:00I don't disagree with Chomsky's statement ...I don't disagree with Chomsky's statement -- the effect is there, it's a question of magnitude.steve hsuhttp://duende.uoregon.edu/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5880610.post-40165806337163987522013-11-23T07:31:11.157-05:002013-11-23T07:31:11.157-05:00At one point in his career, Chomsky denied that la...At one point in his career, Chomsky denied that language evolved. He has since backed down from that idiocy. He is a marxist, and since marxism is incompatible with Darwinism and evolution, he is conflicted.BobSykesnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5880610.post-20270144555382427822013-11-22T22:38:47.285-05:002013-11-22T22:38:47.285-05:00you and i, oregonlocal, are much closer on the pol...you and i, oregonlocal, are much closer on the political spectrum than you might imagine. i've voted gop as often as dem.<br /><br /><br /><br />a few years ago cnn fired one of its on air "journalists" merely for suggesting the preponderance of ashkenazim in elite journalism.Diogenesnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5880610.post-68834939090361625062013-11-22T21:57:13.759-05:002013-11-22T21:57:13.759-05:00Finklestein still gets into editorial pages and on...Finklestein still gets into editorial pages and onto TV occasionally. The only reason Finklestein and Chomsky get any press at all is because they are Jewish. If you are White and objectively analyze or criticize Jews or Zionism in any way then you get completely ignored by both the media and academia like Professor Kevin MacDonald.<br /><br /><br />No sane person takes po mo seriously once oregonlocalhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RRh0QiXyZSknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5880610.post-22230596770375294282013-11-22T20:47:07.814-05:002013-11-22T20:47:07.814-05:00but steve disagrees with chomsky here:
"...t...but steve disagrees with chomsky here:<br /><br />"...they're likely to be kicked out. The standard thing, though, is that they won't make it within the institutions in the first place, particularly if they were that way when they were young—they'll simply be weeded out somewhere along the line. So in most cases, the people who make it through the institutions and are able to Diogenesnoreply@blogger.com