This stuff, at its heart, imo, is very meta -- as in, how the world actually works.
He often refers to what he considers to be good books -- there are lists online -- not sure if they are accurate or not -- but those books often drill down on various more specific topics, like "the investment theory of politics".
If you're American, you will probably end up super depressed for a couple weeks.
But I feel like understanding how the world works is a kind of foundation for everything else.
Science and biology and all that is important and even more fundamental, but Chomsky stuff attacks all of your core assumptions even about those things.
Like, I read his opinion on how he was shitting all over gpt-3 or something -- not for the reasons you might think. That happens to be a nerdy topic that might show up here on HN, but of course crosses over into ai, and language / thought / human nature stuff.
So if you've ever had an aha or whoa-type moment -- while reading or being in a new situation, like your first trip overseas, there tends to be a lot of that.
So it's not always new info, but new and more accurate ways to understand what you already knew -- or thought you already knew.
This stuff, at its heart, imo, is very meta -- as in, how the world actually works.
He often refers to what he considers to be good books -- there are lists online -- not sure if they are accurate or not -- but those books often drill down on various more specific topics, like "the investment theory of politics".
If you're American, you will probably end up super depressed for a couple weeks.
But I feel like understanding how the world works is a kind of foundation for everything else.
Science and biology and all that is important and even more fundamental, but Chomsky stuff attacks all of your core assumptions even about those things.
Like, I read his opinion on how he was shitting all over gpt-3 or something -- not for the reasons you might think. That happens to be a nerdy topic that might show up here on HN, but of course crosses over into ai, and language / thought / human nature stuff.
So if you've ever had an aha or whoa-type moment -- while reading or being in a new situation, like your first trip overseas, there tends to be a lot of that.
So it's not always new info, but new and more accurate ways to understand what you already knew -- or thought you already knew.