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Re:Talks at Google: Noam Chomsky [video] by aptidude187 on Sunday July 30, 2017 @05:51AM (#14885252)
What does he mean by that? Can you elaborate please?
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Re:Talks at Google: Noam Chomsky [video] by Vinalin on Sunday July 30, 2017 @10:01AM (#14885971)
I think it's in the same vein as the quote by Jeff Hammerbacher: “The best minds of my generation are thinking about how to make people click ads”.
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Re:Talks at Google: Noam Chomsky [video] by n3x10e8 on Sunday July 30, 2017 @06:08AM (#14885292)
As a context just before that NC was explaining how advertising leads to distortion in rational decision making which is the basis for all of the current economic free market system.
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