Tweets

You blocked @sapinker

Are you sure you want to view these Tweets? Viewing Tweets won't unblock @sapinker

  1. I am a page on the Police Wiki (the rock group with Sting, Andy Summers, and Stewart Copeland; nothing to do with cops, fuzz, gendarmes, or state monopoly on the legitimate use of force).

    Undo
  2. Retweeted
    Jan 29

    A brief rant: Is there any reason to use the word "murine," besides sounding fancy and scientific? Correct me if I'm wrong, but I can't think of any context in which you'd lose something by just writing "mouse."

    Undo
  3. Rationality and Irrationality. Why follow reason? Second lecture (earlier today) of my course at Harvard General Education 1066: Rationality. 1/30/2020 (Thu)

    Undo
  4. Streaming video of my first lecture (yesterday) in General Education 1066, "Rationality." 1/28/2020 (Tue)

    Undo
  5. A podcasted conversation about human gullibility and epistemic vigilance w cognitive scientist Hugo Mercier, author of Not Born Yesterday, & Skeptic editor & chronicler of weird beliefs Michael Shermer

    Undo
  6. Episode 39 of Jacob Mchangama's podcast history of free speech. How Weimar Germany, ambivalent about free speech and vulnerable to censorship, quickly gave way to Nazi tyranny.

    Undo
  7. Humpback Whale Saved From The Verge Of Extinction

    Undo
  8. People are too quick to write off Africa: it has shown tremendous gains in health and prosperity, with tremendous promise for more.

    Undo
  9. Do chimps really know how to dance, as a new study suggests? It all depends on what you mean by dancing. New Mind Matters column by Susan Pinker. via

    Undo
  10. Enlightenment Now by Steven Pinker – new interview in Panorama Magazine

    Undo
  11. What does traditional music around the world have in common? (video from Science magazine about our cross-cultural study of music with Sam Mehr). via

    Undo
  12. Lovely essay on free expression and good writing by Hitchens Prize winner George Packer.

    Undo
  13. Retweeted
    Jan 25

    On longing to matter - ⁦⁩ gives a plausible account of the search for meaning in life

    Undo
  14. Retweeted

    Now listening to The Sense of Style, by that consummate English stylist Steven Pinker. Among much that is wonderfully quotable, I take special delight in this: “ . . . postmodernism, which rejects the possibility that any word can ever refer to anything . . .”

    Undo
  15. For decades I've argued that a key test of innateness hypotheses (e.g., Chomsky on language) is whether an AI could learn to speak & think like people with no innate structure. argues that GPT-2 is now providing that test.

    Undo
  16. When speaking about repressive opinion mobs, I never blame it on Millennials or Gen-Zs. It started with the Boomers, & the noisiest today don’t speak for a whole generation. Sam Abrahams’ experience here overlaps with mine at Harvard & elsewhere.

    Undo
  17. My new Harvard course: General Education 1066, "Rationality."

    Undo
  18. Retweeted
    Jan 23

    When I was in grad school, focusing on philosophy of science, nothing would crack me up more than the thought of applying philosophical thinking to "that old chestnut." What happened? Either I'm getting wiser . . . or senile.

    Undo
  19. No serious observer denies that human beings are making the planet warmer. The real climate debate is about how we should respond to the challenge, writes . via

    Undo
  20. Another sign of progress in health: Our bodies have gotten cooler, probably because we’re less infected and inflamed.

    Undo

Loading seems to be taking a while.

Twitter may be over capacity or experiencing a momentary hiccup. Try again or visit Twitter Status for more information.

    You may also like

    ·