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CDR: RE: H-WEB: N Chomsky on Hayek & 'inevitable' Dictatorship (fwd)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jim Choate)
Fri Feb 12 01:50:43 1999
From: Jim Choate <ravage@einstein.ssz.com>
To: cypherpunks@einstein.ssz.com
Date: Fri, 12 Feb 1999 00:37:02 -0600 (CST)
Reply-To: Jim Choate <ravage@einstein.ssz.com>
>Subject: CDR: RE: H-WEB: N Chomsky on Hayek & 'inevitable' Dictatorship
>Date: Thu, 11 Feb 1999 21:53:57 -0800
>It is a strange thing, that someone with so much knowledge in linguistics that his theories can be
>considered groundbreaking, nevertheless can fail to appreciate the concepts which were the subject
>of that speech of his.
Not to denegrate Chomsky or anyone else, but;
How can somebody whose theories have been proven wrong (eg Deep Structure
and the language organ - not related to Boca's Area) time and time again be
considered ground breaking? I am not aware of any research in linguistics,
let alone AI, over the last 20 years that has relied on any of Chomsky's work
at the fundamental level. The only significant contribution of Chomsky's work
has been to formal language design used in compiler design.
A good review of the current AI field and the relative contributions of
various theories is,
Mind Matters: Exploring the world of artificial intelligence
James P. Hogan
ISBN 0-345-41240-0
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