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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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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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What went wrong at Harvard | Steven Pinker | The Reason Interview With Nick Gillespie
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What went wrong at Harvard | Steven Pinker | The Reason Interview With Nick Gillespie
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On Trump flouting norms and why this is a negative development: "[One of the] remarkable things about Donald Trump—and uniquely among American politicians—is that he has violated norms that have been in place, such as: you don’t boast, you don’t blatantly lie. I mean, all politicians lie because all human beings lie. But they lied under the cover of claiming to be honest. With Trump, it’s patent that he just doesn’t care about factual accuracy. He’ll say things that are in his interest and that
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On Trump flouting norms and why this is a negative development: "[One of the] remarkable things about Donald Trump—and uniquely among American politicians—is that he has violated norms that have been in place, such as: you don’t boast, you don’t blatantly lie. I mean, all politicians lie because all human beings lie. But they lied under the cover of claiming to be honest. With Trump, it’s patent that he just doesn’t care about factual accuracy. He’ll say things that are in his interest and that
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Prof. Steven Pinker - The Better Angels of Our Nature: A History of Violence and Humanity
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Steven Pinker Interview and Reading
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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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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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What went wrong at Harvard | Steven Pinker | The Reason Interview With Nick Gillespie
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What went wrong at Harvard | Steven Pinker | The Reason Interview With Nick Gillespie
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On Trump flouting norms and why this is a negative development: "[One of the] remarkable things about Donald Trump—and uniquely among American politicians—is that he has violated norms that have been in place, such as: you don’t boast, you don’t blatantly lie. I mean, all politicians lie because all human beings lie. But they lied under the cover of claiming to be honest. With Trump, it’s patent that he just doesn’t care about factual accuracy. He’ll say things that are in his interest and that
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On Trump flouting norms and why this is a negative development: "[One of the] remarkable things about Donald Trump—and uniquely among American politicians—is that he has violated norms that have been in place, such as: you don’t boast, you don’t blatantly lie. I mean, all politicians lie because all human beings lie. But they lied under the cover of claiming to be honest. With Trump, it’s patent that he just doesn’t care about factual accuracy. He’ll say things that are in his interest and that
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Human nature and the blank slate
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Human nature and the blank slate
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How Common Knowledge Shapes the World | Steven Pinker | TED
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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 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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Steven Pinker Makes the Case for Optimism [Interview]
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The surprising decline in violence
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On laughter generating common knowledge: "Laughter is--like eye contact, like direct speech--generates common knowledge. When you're laughing, you know it, because your breathing is interrupted. People around you know it, because they can hear the laughter. It interrupts your speech, and so people who are listening to you know that you're laughing, and you know that you're laughing. So it's generally common knowledge of something. What is that common knowledge? It's generally common knowledge of
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When leaders violate norms without consequence, shared “common knowledge” fractures. Media silos and social segregation also deepen polarization by erasing a common civic reality. Full video: https://youtube.com/watch?v=mTQsOBLEIV8 For more on common knowledge, see my new book: When Everyone Knows That Everyone Knows . . .: Common Knowledge and the Mysteries of Money, Power, and Everyday Life | Steven Pinker
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I spoke with Freddie Sayers of UnHerd on the assassination of Charlie Kirk and the right's swift adoption of cancel culture around it. "The Charlie Kirk killing has been seen, even though it was a kind of deranged, internet-addled loner, it's seen as an attack on the right. And the right in the United States has rediscovered the joys of cancel culture originally invented by the left, and have demonized, shamed, mobbed, fired, punished people who have dissented from the posthumous canonization of
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On Putin's invasion of Ukraine: “This really was a stunning breach of the norm since 1945: that borders are grandfathered in; nation-states are immortal. The borders may be irrational; they may be all kinds of grounds for irredentist claims—‘Well, that patch of land on your side of the border really historically and morally ought to be on our side’—which could lead to endless wars. But good fences make good neighbors. There they are, and if you just say, ‘The borders are the borders,’ then you a
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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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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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Interview with Steven Pinker: A Little (Common) Knowledge is a Dangerous Thing
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Steven Pinker: Human nature and the blank slate
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Yuval Noah Harari & Steven Pinker in conversation
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Steven Pinker: Why Heterodoxy Matters in the World
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Understanding Human Nature with Steven Pinker - Conversations with History
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The Sense of Style | Steven Pinker | Talks at Google
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Steven Pinker: Threats, Bribes, and Come-ons. Why We Speak In Euphemisms.
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Enlightenment and the Righteous Mind | Steven Pinker and Jonathan Haidt | EP 198
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The psychology behind a pandemic - Acclaimed psychologist Steven Pinker
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Steven Pinker on Noam Chomsky's Universal Grammar | Conversations with Tyler
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