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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). http://thepolicewiki.org/Police_wiki/index.php?title=2019-04-25 …
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Steven Pinker Retweeted
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."
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Rationality and Irrationality. Why follow reason? Second lecture (earlier today) of my course at Harvard General Education 1066: Rationality. 1/30/2020 (Thu) https://harvard.hosted.panopto.com/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=5668bdb6-77ab-404c-a243-ab3b0140ee42 …
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Streaming video of my first lecture (yesterday) in General Education 1066, "Rationality." 1/28/2020 (Tue) https://harvard.hosted.panopto.com/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=a780e65f-e1d0-47a2-97c4-ab3b0140edfb …
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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 Shermerhttps://www.skeptic.com/science-salon/hugo-mercier-not-born-yesterday-science-of-who-we-trust-and-what-we-believe/ …
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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.http://traffic.libsyn.com/freespeechhistory/Episode_39_-_The_Totalitarian_Temptation_Part_2_Der_Untergang_27012020.mp3 …
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Humpback Whale Saved From The Verge Of Extinction http://agency.goodnaturemedia.com/mf/html/d0b6d7/29ca05b1 …
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People are too quick to write off Africa: it has shown tremendous gains in health and prosperity, with tremendous promise for more. https://humanprogress.org/article.php?p=2391 …
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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. https://www.wsj.com/articles/humans-and-other-dancing-animals-11579928461 … via
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Enlightenment Now by Steven Pinker – new interview in Panorama Magazinehttps://www.panorama2go.com/en/enlightenment-now-by-steven-pinker/ …
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What does traditional music around the world have in common? (video from Science magazine about our cross-cultural study of music with Sam Mehr). https://youtu.be/IMFVo0X9HPE via
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Lovely essay on free expression and good writing by Hitchens Prize winner George Packer.https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/01/packer-hitchens/605365/?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share …
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Steven Pinker Retweeted
On longing to matter -
@platobooktour gives a plausible account of the search for meaning in lifehttp://www.pairagraph.com/dialogue/3302ca32c5b7423d99c8a16a8c5ddc39/2 …Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo -
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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 . . .”
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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.
@garymarcus argues that GPT-2 is now providing that test.https://thegradient.pub/gpt2-and-the-nature-of-intelligence/ …Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo -
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.https://spectator.us/new-mob-sarah-lawrence-college/ …
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My new Harvard course: General Education 1066, "Rationality."pic.twitter.com/piaumtUU3b
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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.https://twitter.com/pairagraph/status/1220378152507232262 …
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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
@TedNordhaus. https://www.wsj.com/articles/ignore-the-fake-climate-debate-11579795816 … via@WSJThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo -
Another sign of progress in health: Our bodies have gotten cooler, probably because we’re less infected and inflamed.https://apple.news/AA1uTdIhmRQayQdkQlKr3gg …
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