Steven PinkerOvjeren akaunt

@sapinker

Cognitive scientist at Harvard.

Boston, MA
Vrijeme pridruživanja: siječanj 2010.

Medijski sadržaj

  1. 26. sij

    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

  2. 24. sij

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

  3. 17. sij

    Optimism vs. Pessimism About the World’s Future | A debate & discussion with two of my favorite commentators, Robert Wright & Zachary Karabell

  4. 2. sij
    Odgovor korisniku/ci

    Explained in EN 224-8 & Welzel 2013 Fig 4-4. Yes, estimates, but not linear extrapolations w fake noise. WVS finds huge cohort, moderate period, small life-cycle effects. Welzel adjusted WVS data for all 3 to get retrospective estimates.

  5. Rising Enlightenment ideals in the Islamic world, riding a 6-decade global wave of liberal values documented by World Values Survey (women's rights, gay rights, personal freedom...). Graph in Enlightenment Now from WVS's Christian Welzel.

  6. A two-l llama, he's a beast. Beautiful Peru: My newest photo gallery. Machu Picchu, New World camelids, goose-stepping palace guards, more.

  7. Racial segregation in US cities has declined.

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  8. AIDS is being beaten (not quickly enough, but significantly).

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  9. Three graphs from a recent issue of The Economist on under-reported positive developments; 1. Taxes & transfers mitigate Inequality, which may not have increased as much as reported. (In any case poverty, wage growth, & plutocracy are the real problems, not inequality per se.)

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  10. The Suicide Rate Doesn’t Go Up Around Christmas via

  11. Beautiful Sweden: My newest photo gallery, featuring Aurora borealis, frozen rivers & waterfalls, 200-year-old preserved homes & stores, & more.

  12. My acceptance speech for Simon Fraser University's prize for controversy has been posted. via

  13. Happy 91st, Noam Chomsky!

  14. Protesters in Lebanon & Iraq with copies of Enlightenment Now, translated & distributed by Ideas Beyond Borders.

  15. Letter to the New Yorker on their article on a text-generating AI program:

  16. Footage from a video podcast interview by Curt Jaimungal: "Steven Pinker on the radical left, Jordan Peterson, Chomsky, and Sam Harris." via

  17. Is music universal? Yes, says my new paper in Science w Sam Mehr Luke Glowacki Manvir Singh & others . Also apparently universal: lyrics, tonality, dance, lullabies, love songs, aesthetic features. More to come.

  18. Beautiful Switzerland: My newest photo gallery, including one of the world's most awe-inspiring sights, the Large Hadron Collider at CERN.

  19. Beautiful Maritimes: Photos of Nova Scotia & Prince Edward Island (including a visit to a childhood summer vacation spot, Dunrovin Farm).

  20. An argument I often get attacked for is "A future AI that would turn us into paper clips is not among our major problems." Just came across an amusing lecture by Maciej Ceglowski making similar points: Superintelligence: The Idea That Eats Smart People.

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