Conversations with Tyler / episode intelligence
Speakers in the public record
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10 published records
01 / belief
“If I think of some of the New Left critics of say, the Cold War, the revisionists — you have Seymour Melman, Pentagon Capitalism, Sidney Lens, D.”
02 / belief
“Leibniz couldn’t have proceeded as we can today, but now we would say something that has evolved and has become intrinsic to our nature.”
03 / evaluation
“Terrified once because we’re racing toward disaster day by day. Doubly terrified because there’s no attention being given to it.”
04 / preference
“I found recently that in this day and age, the easiest way to write and reach people is through the internet because a lot of people don’t read books much anymore.”
05 / preference
“I read plenty of good work from what’s called right to left, but it’s the quality of the work that counts, not the person.”
06 / evaluation
“There’s a gap of a hundred million people killed in India as compared with China, simply because of the lack of carrying out rural development and healthcare programs.”
07 / evaluation
“In the book that Edward Herman and I wrote about manufacturing consent, we selected these conceptions, looked at the structure of the media, and tried to show that, in fact, the institutional structure of the media — these conceptions of the nature of the intellectual were combined to yield a very effective propaganda system.”
08 / prediction
“There’s a recent essay by Stephen Wolfram, where he argues the success of those models is actually evidence for your theory of language — that they must, in some way, be picking up or detecting an underlying structure to language because their means are otherwise too limited to be successful.”
09 / evaluation
“Unpopular ideas can be suppressed without the use of force just because of the class nature of the society and the subordination of intellectuals to power.”
10 / evaluation
“Meanwhile, what Trump managed to do pretty effectively, as a good demagogue, is stand up with a banner in one hand that tells working people, “I love you,” while with the other hand, you stab them in the back.”