Simson Garfinkel of Technology Review blogs about Dan Klein’s presentation on this topic. Lots of links from the blog to the presentation: a streaming webcast, as well as PowerPoint slides and a PDF collection of those slides. It’s actually an interesting intellectual exercise to try to imagine the presentation based only on the PowerPoint slides–almost a translation exercise. I think I get the gist of it, though I had to get all the way to the end to understand what was up with the vultures and emus. Well, understand is too strong. Let’s just say I can guess at the general point Klein seems to be making.

I suppose it’ll take the webcast to clear up all the mysteries. Better, but less fun. (Spoken like a true English prof.)