[k1m]

The last part is great:

Khalil: "It's not every day that a non-Googler gets to sit in a room full of people who work at Google, and are software engineers, and are advertising experts, and are you know market experts in different fields. Do you have anything that you'd like to ask us?"

Chomsky: "Why not do some of the serious things?"

:)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2C-zWrhFqpM&t=59m21s

[kinkrtyavimoodh]

Usually I find needless jabs like these in bad taste, but looking at how pompously the question was worded, I think it was well deserved here.

If he'd just said—is there something you want to ask this room full of Googlers?, it would be okay.

[sideshowb]

And the other final part so great I gave it it's own thread ;-) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14701008

[aptidude187]

What does he mean by that? Can you elaborate please?

[Vinalin]

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”.

[n3x10e8]

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.