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    Steven Pinker‏Verified account @sapinker Apr 19

    Steven Pinker Retweeted Economist Radio

    Good podcast, but the tease contains a common misunderstanding (indicating how hard it is to grasp the concept of progress): evidence that progress has taken place (which I adduce in spades) is not the same as being optimistic about the future (which depends on what we do now).https://twitter.com/EconomistRadio/status/986962066861973504 …

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    In our first #OpenFuture podcast @AnneMcElvoy asks @SAPinker how best to establish an open world and why he is so optimistic about the future http://econ.st/2EZXbra  pic.twitter.com/G1APEoUFNh
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      2. David Thomas‏ @vanya42st Apr 19
        Replying to @sapinker

        Things are not getting better! Today’s Times says a good share of the Great Barrier Reef is permanently dead. I’m reading Vol 1 of William T. Vollmann’s “Carbon Ideologies,” a book that tells me the earth’s natural radiance is about dead & only the shouting remains.

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      3. Murugan Joan Ayisha‏ @murjoaayi Apr 22
        Replying to @vanya42st @sapinker

        Climate has deteriorated. But he's talking about social progress, as part of that, climate awareness has also increased but has a long way to go. One major obstacle to that is US partisan politics.

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      2. John Champagne‏ @TallPhilosopher Apr 19
        Replying to @sapinker

        We're @ a point where we can no longer neglect the basic precept that says natural wealth belongs to all. Respect of this principle would imply that industries pay compensation when pollution is put or resources depleted. That implies accounting 4 externalities. Prices would=cost

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      3. SageThinker‏ @SageThinker99 Apr 21
        Replying to @TallPhilosopher @sapinker

        Yes, and overall capitalism's concentration of wealth is so extreme and obscene that it needs to be directly addressed. It is amoral and very very harmful.pic.twitter.com/CLLj8prDNP

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      4. Murugan Joan Ayisha‏ @murjoaayi Apr 22
        Replying to @SageThinker99 @TallPhilosopher @sapinker

        US capitalism is an extreme case. Scandinavian capitalism seems to be the best economic system we have.

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      5. SageThinker‏ @SageThinker99 Apr 23
        Replying to @murjoaayi @TallPhilosopher @sapinker

        That i might agree with, the best we have a large-scale nation-size example of currently operating. It is a market-based economy with some tempering of the extreme concentration of wealth caused by unmitigated capitalism. Markets work, but extreme inequality ruins their fairness.

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      2. Caroline‏ @CarolinaNicoud Apr 19
        Replying to @sapinker

        Just a thank you note to try to counteract some other tweets of people who do not understand your arguments. Please, keep up the good work, we need a lot more people like you in our planet!

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      3. SageThinker‏ @SageThinker99 Apr 21
        Replying to @CarolinaNicoud @sapinker

        As if anyone who disagrees simply "doesn't understand" his arguments... how about we see what he's saying and see the problems with it, the missing pieces & omissions, and the sophistry of it?

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      4. Caroline‏ @CarolinaNicoud Apr 21
        Replying to @SageThinker99 @sapinker

        I reply because I am assuming good intentions. You did not understand my tweet though. I am not against seeing problems and pointing out missing pieces and omissions. I am expressing support for someone I consider a great thinker (and human being) who is often misunderstood.

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      1. Justin Ward‏ @FIIK85 Apr 23
        Replying to @sapinker

        Agreed on understanding progress not meaning optimism. Not acknowledging the positive trends is a form of, often deliberate, ignorance. If you're only watching negative indicators you miss much of the story.

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      1. SageThinker‏ @SageThinker99 Apr 21
        Replying to @sapinker

        Things are getting better!! ... for about 5% of people on the Earth.pic.twitter.com/377lmZM6E7

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      1. Dwight Gilbert Jones‏ @humanism Apr 19
        Replying to @sapinker

        Our species needs to formalize its opportunity for fresh life cycles beyond one. That quid pro quo will seal the deal for planet harmonization. It's one part DNA stewardship, two parts humanist trust.http://patreon.com/continuance 

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      1. Yuri Barzov‏ @ybarzov Apr 19
        Replying to @sapinker

        These thoughts are provoked by youhttps://medium.com/@yuribarzov/renaissance-2-0-domestication-of-chaos-a2f44e36c179 …

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      1. Martin Robinson‏ @Trivium21c Apr 19
        Replying to @sapinker

        Ah, an important addition, though how certain can one be that a future that we envisage can be built ‘progressively’ through certain improving data-sets?

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