Chomsky and Trivers

Seed just posted a video of a "salon" between Noam Chomsky and Robert Trivers. These are two deliriously smart men, and it's worth checking out...

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Seed Video Feature: Noam Chomsky + Robert Trivers (Full Cut) Watch two of the greatest living intellectuals discuss deceit for over a half an hour. Do you hear that tooting? That's our horn, baby. 'This Topic Annoys Me' Female astrophysicist Janna Levin talks without an Adam's apple about her…
I finally got around to watching the video of Noam Chomsky and Robert Trivers discussing deceit and deception. Wonderful to watch how two very sharp minds go about thinking through things. Here's the part that grabbed my attention. Robert Trivers at one point in the conversation: "..you have the…
Robert Trivers was the first to describe the theory of reciprocal altruism and Noam Chomsky is... well... Noam Chomsky is the man (not to be confused with The Man). What happens when you bring together in one room the evolutionary theorist who changed the way we think about cooperation and social…