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Cognitive scientist at Harvard.

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pinker.wjh.harvard.edu
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    Steven Pinker‏Verified account @sapinker Jul 22

    N Yorker: "More people survive heart attacks than in the past, but the relief of surviving wears off as one returns to the daily grind." Tell that to the widow & kids of those who didn't survive (they're not around to ask). Talk about cosmic ingratitude!https://whyevolutionistrue.wordpress.com/2018/07/22/the-new-yorker-goes-after-pinker-and-his-progressivism/ …

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      2. Geoffrey Miller‏Verified account @primalpoly Jul 22
        Replying to @sapinker

        The New Yorker seems stuck in the witless fatalism that Aubrey de Grey calls the 'pro-death trance'.

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      1. (((Dominique)))‏ @AbbakkaHypatia Jul 22
        Replying to @sapinker

        My dad died of a heart attack. I wish he had survived so the relief of his survival could "wear off" ...

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      1. AE Nash‏ @IgToastChronica Jul 22
        Replying to @sapinker

        I don’t even understand how fading relief is a useful measure. After I was laid up for 5 months, I found the grocery store amazing! exciting! And that faded. That’s how the mind works, not planning to re-shatter leg, thank you modern medicine. #smh

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      2. Nicklas Larsson‏ @QurilionNicklas Jul 22
        Replying to @sapinker

        I'm pretty sure most people would prefer living to dying, actually.

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      3. Nicklas Larsson‏ @QurilionNicklas Jul 22
        Replying to @QurilionNicklas @sapinker

        "Progressivism hasn’t done much for spirituality" ...What the fragglebraggle?

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      4. Nicklas Larsson‏ @QurilionNicklas Jul 22
        Replying to @QurilionNicklas @sapinker

        Holy moly what the fuck. It just keeps getting more and more bizarre as I read.

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      1. madeofmistake‏ @madeofmistak3 Jul 22
        Replying to @sapinker

        Don't they know that death is what gives life meaning? How dare they take away someones meaning!

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      2. Bill Perkins (Guy)‏Verified account @bp22 Jul 22
        Replying to @sapinker

        I have defibrillators in every building boat etc. Romance is planning 😉

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      3. Debbie Nix‏ @nascargigi Jul 22
        Replying to @bp22 @sapinker

        I wish there had been one available when my husband needed it. I miss him every day.

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      2. Queen Leigh‏ @JBFletcher88 Jul 22
        Replying to @sapinker

        I think you’re completely right that things are getting better, healthier, more peaceful, and more prosperous on our societal train. Unfortunately it appears the train is speeding for the broken bridge, and deep down we all know it, and it leaves us anxious and misshapen.

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      3. John Champagne‏ @TallPhilosopher Jul 22
        Replying to @JBFletcher88 @sapinker

        Much is said about how we've improved in past 1500 or 150 yrs. Little apparent concern that what we have is not sustainable, and scant interest in finding a remedy to current ills. (The solution to societal problems is to manifest basic moral precepts in reality.)pic.twitter.com/EhSqDA7595

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      1. LaurieEndicottThomas‏ @LaurieEThomas Jul 22
        Replying to @sapinker

        Your risk of myocardial infarction drops to practically zero if you keep your total cholesterol <150 mg/dL.http://gorillaprotein.com 

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      1. Adrian Bowyer‏ @adrianbowyer Jul 22
        Replying to @sapinker

        "Who cured you?" "Jesus did, sir. I was hopping along, minding my own business. All of a sudden, up he comes. Cures me. One minute I'm a leper with a trade, next minute my livelihood's gone. Not so much as a by your leave. 'You're cured mate.' Bloody do-gooder."

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      1. NeoModernPostMarxist‏ @Epistemachus Jul 22
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        My hedonic treadmill is stuck at max speed and incline.

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      2. Joshua Rothman‏ @joshuarothman Jul 23
        Replying to @sapinker

        It does survey the many arguments and reasons for our pessimism—many of them advanced by other writers in other books. Its conclusion is that progress is more widespread than we feel it to be and that progress is meaningful even when its unappreciated.

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      3. Joshua Rothman‏ @joshuarothman Jul 23
        Replying to @joshuarothman @sapinker

        I honestly think this reading of the piece is off-base. But to each his own!

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      1. Joshua Rothman‏ @joshuarothman Jul 23
        Replying to @sapinker

        I have to say that I’m mystified by this post. I think my piece is very clearly impressed by and admiring of Enlightenment Now, which is a convincing and illuminating book. The article is not a take-down. It’s a round-up of several books on the subject of optimism and pessimism.

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      1. Bertha madras‏ @madras_bertha Jul 22
        Replying to @sapinker @jflier

        The critic refuting the value of Pinker’s positive data on survival should proffer counter empirical data that survival relief wears off. Beliefs are pointless in the face of evidence. New Yorker critic’s approach is anachronistic and belongs around prehistoric campfire chats.

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      1. Anthony Lilley‏ @ShumanTheHuman Jul 22
        Replying to @sapinker

        Children: Oh Daddy, it's so wonderful you survived that terrible heart attack! Father: Yes, although I fear I am beset by a terrible fog of ennui. Children:Yeah? Better than being brown bread? Father: Suppose

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