#steven-pinker — Public Fediverse posts

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Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress by Steven Pinker, 2018

Is the world really falling apart? Is the ideal of progress obsolete? In this elegant assessment of the human condition in the third millennium, cognitive scientist and public intellectual Steven Pinker urges us to step back from the gory headlines and prophecies of doom, which play to our psychological biases.

#books
#nonfiction
#progress
#StevenPinker
#AltText

https://bsky.app/profile/capitolhunters.bsky.social/post/3mdq3ttzqy22i

#BariWeiss #EpsteinFiles #PeterAttia #LarrySummers #StevenPinker

1984 revisited: George Orwell would be relieved at how we’ve done
https://www.thetimes.com/comment/columnists/article/1984-revisited-george-orwell-future-vision-compared-wg6l72png
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Canadians should thank Steven Pinker for denouncing DEI in Parliament
https://nationalpost.com/opinion/canadians-should-thank-steven-pinker-for-denouncing-dei-in-parliament?itm_source=index

#StevenPinker #DEI
#CanPol #cdnpoli
#NationalPost

How #CommonKnowledge Shapes the World

#StevenPinker #TED #TEDTalks #Economics

Common knowledge is the secret engine of #sociallife, letting us coordinate everything from meet-ups to #markets to international #diplomacy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GZKU7TgR6IU

#HateSpeech, #Euphemisms and #MincingWords.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qBb8myh54UE

#StephenFry examines why we use euphemisms and #politeness to hide behind some #darktruths , with contributions from comics Omid Djalali , Armando Iannucci, #linguistic specialist Professor #StevenPinker, and how foreign nurses are taught the #subtleties of #Euphemistic #English.

The Shape of #Progress in the #21stCentury

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oWikDviWsWU&list=WL

#stevenpinker #poverty #violence #science

#Harvard author #StevenPinker appears on podcast linked to scientific racism
#BlackMastodon #Science #RacialEssentialism #whiteSupremacy
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2025/jun/07/harvard-steven-pinker-aporia-podcast

Harvard author Steven Pinker appears on podcast linked to scientific racism https://www.theguardian.com/science/2025/jun/07/harvard-steven-pinker-aporia-podcast #HarvardUniversity #StevenPinker #Farright(US) #Worldnews #Podcasts #Science #USnews #Race

»The #Psychology of #VirtualReality: Harvard’s #StevenPinker on the psychology underlying the #experience — and #limitations — of #VR.« https://www.harvardmagazine.com/2025/01/harvard-steven-pinker-psychology-virtual-reality-meta-quest-headset?Metaver.se #Metaverse #VirtualWorlds #VR #AR #MR

Looking for a distraction while you wait? Check out the final episode of our podcast. Steven Pinker has been a guiding force for over a decade. It's great to finally have a conversation after years of correspondence—and we touched on so many important topics. #Podcast #StevenPinker

Three prominent atheists resigned from FFRF's Honorary Board. Good riddance.

https://www.friendlyatheist.com/p/three-prominent-atheists-resigned

Jerry Coyne, Steven Pinker, and Richard Dawkins are big mad that FFRF removed an anti-trans article from their website

#JerryCoyne #StevenPinker #RichardDawkins #FFRF

On #JerryCoyne, #RichardDawkins, and #StevenPinker Resigning from the Board of #FreedomfromReligionFoundation.

https://www.debunking-christianity.com/2024/12/on-jerry-coyne-richard-dawkins-and.html

@gimulnautti don't worry, i've been reading a lot of #RichardDawkins and #SamHarris and they've convinced me that Europe, due its superior moral culture and the influence of Christianity, has turned a corner and will not descend into barbarism again. Likewise #StevenPinker concludes the same, but credits Europe's wonderful liberal political arrangements and sociotechnical progress.

#sarcasm

2/22/24 – Open 6-9p. Mask recommended. No open drinks, please.

Two very interesting books from a pile of new arrivals. Are they Philosophy? Writing? Sociology? I love the challenge of shelving cross-topic books. I'll probably put them in Science... Or, just let them float around the tables for a bit and see who finds them first. 😉

#BonnettsBooks #DaytonOhio #BrickAndMortar #UsedBookStore #RichardDawkins #BooksDoFurnishALife #StevenPinker #TheStuffOfThought #BooksellerLife
@bookstodon

Natural History of #Ashkenazi Intelligence (NHAI) is a paper published by "human biodiversity" proponent Gregory Cochran, anthropology student Jason Hardy and white nationalist Henry Harpending which "elaborates the hypothesis that the unique demography and sociology of Ashkenazim in medieval Europe selected for intelligence." It appears to be an hereditarian attempt to find "scientific" evidence for racist beliefs about race and intelligence. The paper was published in 2006 in the Cambridge University Press' Journal of Biosocial Science. The journal had been renamed from The Eugenics Review in 1969 at the time that Cambridge University Press began publishing the journal.

NHAI presents an untested and unproven hypothesis, which was nevertheless promoted by mainstream media, via proponents of hereditarianism, especially New York Times columnist Nicholas Wade and Harvard professor Steven Pinker.

#RationalWiki #Jews #racialism #racism #stevenpinker https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Natural_History_of_Ashkenazi_Intelligence

The #Intelligence and #Rationality of #AI and #Humans: A Conversation With #StevenPinker

https://hdsr.mitpress.mit.edu/pub/vbbb4ukb/release/1

...avant de m'intéresser à l'idéologie sous-jacente. Mon but était ici de ne pas m'arrêter à la constatation de la faiblesse argumentative de Pinker, mais de souligner que ses thèses s'inscrivent en fait dans une longue lignée d'apologies du néolibéralisme, reprenant parfois leur discours mot pour mot. https://dbao.leo-varnet.fr/2020/05/05/triomphe-des-lumieres-ou-apologie-du-neoliberalisme/ #StevenPinker

Deux billets rédigés à la suite de la publication du livre "Le Triomphe des Lumières" de Steven Pinker, qui défend une organisation néolibérale du monde sous couvert de rationalisme. Il y a une contradiction patente dans ce texte : Pinker se fait le défenseur de la raison tout en émaillant son discours d'approximations, d'erreurs et de déclarations péremptoires. Je me suis appliqué dans un premier temps à relever ces erreurs de raisonnement... https://dbao.leo-varnet.fr/2019/08/26/triomphe-des-lumieres-ou-faillite-de-la-raison/ #StevenPinker

...avant de m'intéresser à l'idéologie sous-jacente. Mon but était ici de ne pas m'arrêter à la constatation de la faiblesse argumentative de Pinker, mais de souligner que ses thèses s'inscrivent en fait dans une longue lignée d'apologies du néolibéralisme, reprenant parfois leur discours mot pour mot. https://dbao.leo-varnet.fr/2020/05/05/triomphe-des-lumieres-ou-apologie-du-neoliberalisme/ #StevenPinker

Deux billets rédigés à la suite de la publication du livre "Le Triomphe des Lumières" de Steven Pinker, qui défend une organisation néolibérale du monde sous couvert de rationalisme. Il y a une contradiction patente dans ce texte : Pinker se fait le défenseur de la raison tout en émaillant son discours d'approximations, d'erreurs et de déclarations péremptoires. Je me suis appliqué dans un premier temps à relever ces erreurs de raisonnement... https://dbao.leo-varnet.fr/2019/08/26/triomphe-des-lumieres-ou-faillite-de-la-raison/ #StevenPinker

Disconnected facts

Cognitive psychology has shown that the mind best understands facts when they are woven into a conceptual fabric, such as a narrative, mental map, or intuitive theory. Disconnected facts in the mind are like unlinked pages on the web: They might as well not exist.

~ Steven Pinker

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Dubious applications

Think about what you will add to the world. Some lucrative professions, (e.g., ultra-high-tech finance,) are dubious applications of human brainpower.

~ Steven Pinker

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Respectable occupations

Don’t think that the arts and verbal professions are the only respectable occupations, (a common mindset of grandchildren of workers.) The elites sneer at commerce as tawdry, but it’s what gives people what they want and need, and pays for everything else, including the luxury of art.

~ Steven Pinker

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Effectiveness

Focus on effectiveness—what your actions will actually accomplish—and not self-actualization or other ways of trying to feel good about yourself.

~ Steven Pinker

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Thinking through

Ignore advice to simply follow your intuition or gut without thinking through whether the course is likely to be fruitful and rewarding.

~ Steven Pinker

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Deluding oneself

Find a new topic or area or concern that has a small number of people that you respect behind it, but which has not become a culture-wide fad or conventional wisdom. If it’s already common knowledge, it’s probably too late to make a major contribution. If you’re the only one excited, you may be deluding yourself.

~ Steven Pinker

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