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Cognitive scientist at Harvard.

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pinker.wjh.harvard.edu
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    Steven Pinker‏Verified account @sapinker Aug 30

    Thoughtful review by Thomas Chatterton Williams of Jon Haidt & Greg Lukianoff’s Coddling of the American Mind and William Egginton’s Splintering of same.https://nyti.ms/2BN1uKd 

    6:26 AM - 30 Aug 2018
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      2. Gyeff‏ @Gyeff Aug 31
        Replying to @sapinker

        Is this article stating that Israel should open it's borders? This is so anti-Semitic! Remember the Holocaust.

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      3. Darinstrauss‏Verified account @Darinstrauss Sep 2
        Replying to @Gyeff @sapinker

        What?

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      2. boringfileclerk‏ @boringfileclerk Aug 30
        Replying to @sapinker

        Will we have a perfect society when all sharp corners are banned?

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      3. la tafiole sucree‏ @latafiolesucree Aug 30
        Replying to @boringfileclerk @sapinker

        Will we have a perfect society when silly Twitter polls based on a straw man are banned?

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      2. SchizoPete‏ @PeterJohnKattz Aug 30
        Replying to @sapinker

        This post contradict two of your claims Pinker: progress by all relevant metrics and that behaviour is genetically predetermined. You also seem to claim that bad news is fake and the problem is bad words like those in the title.

        1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
      3. Science Literacy‏ @SciLiteracyChan Aug 31
        Replying to @PeterJohnKattz @sapinker

        Pinker has never claimed behaviour is *wholly* genetically predetermined, just that all behaviour has some degree of genetic predisposition behind it, which is modifiable by the environment -- hence how we can achieve societal progress.

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      4. SchizoPete‏ @PeterJohnKattz Sep 1
        Replying to @SciLiteracyChan @sapinker

        Nope. As is his style he has made absolute statements saying for instance that parenting has no effect on outcome. Doubt and nuance is booooring.

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      5. Science Literacy‏ @SciLiteracyChan Sep 1
        Replying to @PeterJohnKattz @sapinker

        I'd like to see the reference to that. He did write the foreword to "The Nurture Assumption" in '96, which dismantles many of the assumed environmental effects from parenting, but does not claim it has *no* influence. The book also doesn't claim everything is genetic.

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      6. SchizoPete‏ @PeterJohnKattz Sep 1
        Replying to @SciLiteracyChan @sapinker

        He repeats these claims in his many lectures. Like:https://youtu.be/Beqtt42iDW8 

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      7. Science Literacy‏ @SciLiteracyChan Sep 1
        Replying to @PeterJohnKattz @sapinker

        None of those links, included the AlJazeera one, demonstrate your claim that he waves the threat of climate change away. You're just misrepresenting him. So I've lost interest in this - thanks.

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      8. SchizoPete‏ @PeterJohnKattz Sep 2
        Replying to @SciLiteracyChan @sapinker

        I can tell the AlJazeera link is the only one someone clicked. The logic is pretty simple. Pinker claims that capitalist civilization has caused progress by all relevant metrics. Meanwhile Climate scientists are saying we are about to go extinct b/c of C02 and methane pollution.

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      9. SchizoPete‏ @PeterJohnKattz Sep 2
        Replying to @PeterJohnKattz @SciLiteracyChan @sapinker

        CO2 pollution is caused by what he defines as progress. For instance he says air travel is human flourishing and therefor more air travel is progress. Nothing puts more CO2 in the air than travelling by air. I call that ignoring climate change.

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      1. Pipe‏ @JupiterPipe Sep 3
        Replying to @sapinker

        OMG! @sapinker so happy to find out you'll be visiting Buenos Aires next week! I hope I can get tickets to your lecture at the CCK. Will you be doing any other lectures/events during your stay???

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      2. John Hiett‏ @JohnHiett Aug 30
        Replying to @sapinker

        Democracy? What Democracy?

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      3. Gyeff‏ @Gyeff Aug 31
        Replying to @JohnHiett @sapinker

        Democracy? You mean populous mob rule by the rabble and the and the hoodlums and the degenerates who want to destroy society? Let them eat cake.

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      2. SchizoPete‏ @PeterJohnKattz Aug 30
        Replying to @sapinker

        You have claimed there is no point in worrying about problems like climate change. So what is the point of this post?

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      3. Science Literacy‏ @SciLiteracyChan Aug 31
        Replying to @PeterJohnKattz @sapinker

        You should read his latest book, where he devotes considerable space to discuss why we definitely need to worry about climate change and what we can do about it.

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      4. SchizoPete‏ @PeterJohnKattz Sep 1
        Replying to @SciLiteracyChan @sapinker

        That's weird because I heard him give three reasons why we should ignore it in recent interviews. No point in predicting potential problems. They will solve all problems as they happen. You can't solve climate change so keep driving your SUV.

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      5. Science Literacy‏ @SciLiteracyChan Sep 1
        Replying to @PeterJohnKattz @sapinker

        Again, I'd like to see / hear a reference to that. I've read the book and listened to over a dozen interviews with him about EN, and I've never heard him come close to suggesting what you're saying. I think you're misinterpreting him.

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      6. SchizoPete‏ @PeterJohnKattz Sep 1
        Replying to @SciLiteracyChan @sapinker

        https://youtu.be/BkM2wiOwerc?t=12m31s … this one is time stamped about climate change. I have consumed hours and hours of @sapinker . His presentation is very good. Along the way contradictions started accumulating. I didn't keep files. It's all of the internet though, if you really are curious.

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      7. SchizoPete‏ @PeterJohnKattz Sep 1
        Replying to @PeterJohnKattz @SciLiteracyChan @sapinker

        In a recent interview I can't find any more he said anticipating problems is because of neurological negativity bias. We imagine probles. We have solved all problems as they happen and will continue to do so. There is no point in proactively preventing a problem.

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      8. SchizoPete‏ @PeterJohnKattz Sep 1
        Replying to @PeterJohnKattz @SciLiteracyChan @sapinker

        He ignores the problem that exponential growth of consumption and pollution becomes physically impossible. Growth is not progress it is catastrophe.

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      9. SchizoPete‏ @PeterJohnKattz Sep 1
        Replying to @PeterJohnKattz @SciLiteracyChan @sapinker

        The science is clear we have entered the worst extinction event life on earth has seen. He keeps weaseling out of the clear scientific fact that his #capitalist definition of "human flourishing" has led to annihilation. I think he knows it's too late.

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