Harvard's Steven Pinker: how we speak reveals what we think
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Harvard's Steven Pinker: how we speak reveals what we think
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Steven Pinker - The Language of Swearing (1/2)
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How Common Knowledge Shapes the World | Steven Pinker | TED
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“I have nothing against diversity, equity, and inclusion. But as Voltaire said about the Holy Roman Empire: it was neither holy, nor Roman, nor an empire.” | Steven Pinker
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I explain why being honest all the time would be unbearable. More about this in my new book: When Everyone Knows That Everyone Knows...: Common Knowledge and the Mysteries of Money, Power, and Everyday Life. https://stevenpinker.com/publications/when-everyone-knows-everyone-knows-common-knowledge-and-mysteries-money-power-and | Steven Pinker
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Linguistics, Style and Writing in the 21st Century - with Steven Pinker
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"The investments we have made in a whole generation of young scientists will go to waste," says Harvard professor Steven Pinker, co-chair of the university’s Council on Academic Freedom, on the Trump administration's $2.2 billion funding freeze on Harvard and the impacts it has on research. "There is a big, a large cohort of young scientists, who feel that their entire careers are being threatened. Not only will they be laid off and unemployed, but they just don't see a future in science," Pinke
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The French Revolution was a disaster: killed 2 million people, led to the rise of Napoleon--perhaps the world's first totalitarian fascist dictator, who began wars of conquest that killed an additional 4 million people, led to the restoration of slavery, to the restoration of the monarchy, and a delay of democracy in France by perhaps a century. Russian Revolution killed several million, led to the Russian Civil War--which killed another 9 million--led to the rise of Stalin, who killed 20 millio
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Steven Pinker: Rules for Writing and AI's Impact
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"Brevity is the soul of wit" is an example of itself. Clip from my longer interview with @david_perell (on X) on writing. | Steven Pinker
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What Happens When We All Know? | Brian Greene & Steven Pinker
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Steven Pinker: Enlightenment Now
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Yuval Noah Harari & Steven Pinker in conversation
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Richard Dawkins and Steven Pinker predict the future of religion!
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The Language Instinct with Steven Pinker (1995)
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Below I explain the concept behind my new book: When Everyone Knows That Everyone Knows . . . Common Knowledge and the Mysteries of Money, Power, and Everyday Life https://bit.ly/3FgucEQ "I came to the topic of common knowledge, that is, everyone knowing that everyone knows that everyone knows something, through my interest in language. In language, most of what we say isn't exactly what we mean. People say things like, if you could pass the salt, that would be awesome. And that's not literally
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Trump's approach is qualitatively different than what we've seen before. As we see in the appointment of a crackpot as the Secretary for Health and Human Sciences, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., and as we see in the imposition of tariffs that no thinker in their right mind could endorse, there's a lot of just pleasure in watching things burn. (From a Reason interview with Nick Gillespie in April.) | Steven Pinker
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Discussing common knowledge with Bill Maher. Common knowledge is the topic of my new book: When Everyone Knows That Everyone Knows...: Common Knowledge and the Mysteries of Money, Power, and Everyday Life. https://stevenpinker.com/publications/when-everyone-knows-everyone-knows-common-knowledge-and-mysteries-money-power-and Maher: What's the phrase of the book when everyone knows that everyone knows? Okay, so explain what that means. Me: Yes, so when everyone knows that everyone knows. When I kn
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On the "greater fool" strategy and common knowledge. More on this in my new book: When Everyone Knows That Everyone Knows . . . Common Knowledge and the Mysteries of Money, Power, and Everyday Life: https://bit.ly/3FgucEQ "In ordinary investing, you buy a share of a company because the company sells something at a profit, and you hope to take a share of that profit. In speculative investing, you buy it not because of the profit of the company, but because you hope that you can unload the shares
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