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Cognitive scientist at Harvard.

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    Steven Pinker‏Verified account @sapinker Mar 25

    Enlightenment Now: 5th week on Hardcover Nonfiction Books - Best Sellers - The New York Timeshttp://www.nytimes.com/books/best-sellers/hardcover-nonfiction/ …

    3:10 AM - 25 Mar 2018
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      1. Sam Sotiropoulos  📜 🎙 💻  ©️2018‏ @TrusteeSam Mar 26
        Replying to @sapinker

        Your premise is flawed. #Reason is not an "Enlightenment ideal", it is a tool, much like a hammer.

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      1. Jacy Reese‏Verified account @jacyreese Mar 25
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        Congrats!

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      1. Michael Starkey‏ @starkeyofoz Mar 26
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        Outstanding read. Agree with Bill Gates - new favourite book. Many thanks @sapinker !

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      1. Steven Kenworthy‏ @stevenkenworthy Mar 25
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        Such a good book, so much #optimism in a SEEMINGLY decaying world order. 📕

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      1. Calum Chace‏ @cccalum Mar 25
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        Long may it remain there, despite its blind spot regarding AI. http://bit.ly/2HGRBvv 

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      1. Matt Harnage‏ @MattHarnage Mar 25
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        I bought the audiobook. I hope those 75 graphs are well explained verbally ha. In all seriousness though, I can’t wait to listen to it. It’s about time Enlightenment values were made cool again. A nice rebuttal to the postmodern BS that’s pushed these days.

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      1. Timothy Clemson‏ @timothyclemson Mar 25
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        Congrats. Half way through audiobook and loving it. Fav fact so far: 137000 lifted out of extreme poverty per day! Priceless.

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      1. VOLSAVANT‏ @sterlingmagnell Mar 25
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        Nice work @sapinker come ride with me in Rwanda 🇷🇼 to celebrate!

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      1. Syed Iqbal simnani‏ @SimnaniIqbals Mar 25
        Replying to @sapinker

        See my last tweet. We can make much better tools and have made huge productivity gains. Do not get humanity , morality and enlightenment into it- we have exponentially increased the chances of extinction on earth and permanently creating a digital/genetic underclass. Just wait!

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      1. Syed Iqbal simnani‏ @SimnaniIqbals Mar 25
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        Russia , China, America investing in next series of nuclear missiles and AI. Israel has wild card nuclear bomb anytime ready to wipe out gulf. Wahabis desperately looking for dirty nuclear bomb. Enlightenment my foot. I prefer less enlightened skull cracking tribals any-day!

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      1. Pentcho Valev‏ @pentcho_valev Mar 25
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        "a sentient being can jump, "within a minute" (of his experienced time) arbitrarily far in the future, say sixty million years ahead, and see, and be part of, what (will) happen then on Earth." http://www.bourbaphy.fr/damourtemps.pdf  Enlightenment or... end of science?pic.twitter.com/JKZIp19vCz

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      1. Patrice Ayme‏ @Tyranosopher Mar 25
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        Glory to you!

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