It's a rehash of http://norvig.com/chomsky.html and the talk by Chomsky that led to it (both recent and relevant). I can't wait to read the continuation of that article that Norvig promised in comments.
You know, the discussion of Chomsky made me realize something. I would bet that Chomsky's take on Norvig's approach (to put specific names on the ideas) is that Norvig is a resurrection of Skinner. Specifically, behaviorism as "study texts, make statistical correlations, but don't make up any grand theories."
