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Cognitive scientist at Harvard.

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    Steven Pinker‏Verified account @sapinker 28 May 2015

    Better Angels has full account of stochastic & power-law nature of war; Taleb "debate" comes from his failure to read http://goo.gl/fpUrGh 

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      2. Charles Murray‏ @charlesmurray 28 May 2015
        Replying to @sapinker

        @sapinker That sounds familiar.

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      3. Jazi Zilber‏ @yzilber 28 May 2015
        Replying to @charlesmurray

        @charlesmurray did you have a confortation with Taleb?

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      2. Brendon J. Brewer‏ @brendonbrewer 28 May 2015
        Replying to @sapinker

        .@sapinker Not that this means much, but as a statistician I've found Taleb's work painful to read. Couldn't get through the Black Swan.

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      4. Brendon J. Brewer‏ @brendonbrewer 28 May 2015
        Replying to @davejac

        @davejac It was a while ago, I don't actually remember many details except being condescended to about the existence of heavy tailed pdfs.

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      1. Jason‏ @Jasonschimp 28 May 2015
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        @sapinker Why is Taleb so incoherent and frothing with rage? Does he have a bloated ego that Pinker pricked with a harsh public spanking?

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      1. Samuel Hammond  🏙‏ @hamandcheese 28 May 2015
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        .@sapinker Isn't it a performative contradiction to argue we've become more peaceful with #ShotsFired ?

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      1. Andrew Teasdale, CFA‏ @depthdynamics 28 May 2015
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        @sapinker @GeorgeShiber "Long peace:a stat illusion?":1 prob with stats:small samples can be thus defined...Century of the Self?

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      2. Kristian Blom‏ @kltblom 2 Jun 2015
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        @sapinker Well known psych issue in all seriousness; engineers, mathematicians have tendency to weak reading comprehension. 1)

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      3. Kristian Blom‏ @kltblom 2 Jun 2015
        Replying to @kltblom

        @sapinker Test by asking; words or numbers? Which has potential to refer greater meaning? 2)

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      1. Honest Vince‏ @HonestVInce 31 May 2015
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        @sapinker I'm sorry Mr Pinker, that is simply not true. I delivered it to him after our contact on FB. More BS?

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      1. Phil Vernon‏ @philvernon2 29 May 2015
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        @sapinker Oh dear, more academics public spatting

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      1. Moisés Daniel‏ @_moisesdaniel_ 28 May 2015
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        @sapinker Taleb is an ill mannered. He is always seeking for confrontation

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      1. Sam Jackson‏ @Sam_Jackson94 28 May 2015
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        @sapinker your globalisation theory is very convincing & works with Nye's theory of soft power replacing hard as communication tech improves

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