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    Steven Pinker‏Verified account @sapinker Apr 30

    My 2018 TED talk is now available. Is the world getting better or worse? A look at the numbers (Steven Pinker | TED2018) https://ted.com/talks/steven_pinker_is_the_world_getting_better_or_worse_a_look_at_the_numbers?utm_source=twitter.com&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=tedspread … via @TEDTalks

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      2. Alfred Gillham‏ @AlfredGillham Apr 30
        Replying to @sapinker @TEDTalks

        Guess it depends where you live Steven? Stats are not everything.

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      3. Thomas Richardson‏ @RichieEvPsych Apr 30
        Replying to @AlfredGillham @sapinker @TEDTalks

        pfft, stats are the least biased way of knowing anything meaningful about the world. Individual narratives tell us nothing of value; they are always heavily biased. How can the experiences of the few speak to the state of a whole population?

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      4. Alfred Gillham‏ @AlfredGillham Apr 30
        Replying to @RichieEvPsych @sapinker @TEDTalks

        A few novels & plays have changed the world imho. Just a guess, no stats?

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      5. Efrain Flores‏ @efrainsandro Apr 30
        Replying to @AlfredGillham @RichieEvPsych and

        Statistics are important, but if they are not nuanced by the stories of people's experiences, something of our understanding of the human being is incomplete.

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      1. Knight Death Devil‏ @Dureresthard Apr 30
        Replying to @sapinker @TEDTalks

        pic.twitter.com/ZpRchpCBvU

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      1. Jeff Russell‏ @rock_hawk Apr 30
        Replying to @sapinker @TEDTalks

        I'm not sure that I want to know the answer, Steven.

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      1. Mats Stafseng Einarsen‏ @matseinarsen Apr 30
        Replying to @sapinker @TEDTalks

        Crazy counter-hypothesis to @sapinker: It is *not* a broadly held perception, particularly not among progressives or intellectuals, that the world is getting worse. It feels like this talk should start with showing that, before trying to disprove it. (does the old book do so?)

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      2. Alex Jay Brady‏ @AlexJayBrady Apr 30
        Replying to @sapinker @TEDTalks

        Famine, drought, mass migration, fascist nationalism and thousands of nuclear weapons on a hair trigger... meanwhile Trump and his fossil fuel masters are trying to destroy the EPA and the Paris Climate Accord....https://edition.cnn.com/2018/03/20/world/world-bank-climate-migrants-report-intl/index.html …

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      1. Corri Baker‏ @corribaker May 2
        Replying to @sapinker @TEDTalks

        @SebHenbest when I read the transcript something about this sentence “...and intellectuals who call themselves progressive really hate progress” reminded me of you 😂

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      1. Ani‏ @AniBeckman May 1
        Replying to @sapinker @TEDTalks

        Not better or worse...perhaps "older" could be a better term. Maybe we're going through an awkward teen phase.

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      1. Mr.Attwell‏ @MrAttwellsClass Apr 30
        Replying to @sapinker @TEDTalks

        Loved it! Your book has changed my world view dramatically. I feel so positive about the state of the world now.

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      1. S@ndeep‏ @sandeep_3D Apr 30
        Replying to @sapinker @TEDTalks

        You used statistical and mathematical tools to justify that world is getting better as the time passed by! The word "progress" is most misinterpreted word. Progress in which direction? And consequences of the same?! #MoronSpeaks

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      1. The Other Karen‏ @KAREN698 Apr 30
        Replying to @sapinker @TEDTalks

        I love this book and Pinker’s talks on it because from a mere pedestrian point of view, there are always people lamenting “what this world has come to” and “this new generation.” I’m glad to have a wide-reaching counter to those arguments.

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      1. james frames‏ @jamesframes2015 Apr 30
        Replying to @sapinker @TEDTalks

        No pride on getting better if we are fakin up the planet in the process

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      1. Bryce‏ @brycedimsdale Apr 30
        Replying to @sapinker @TEDTalks

        Humans are like music, limitless within the architecture that brings us into being.pic.twitter.com/Z8nVqDnH8h

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      2. Michael Beaton‏ @mhbx May 1
        Replying to @sapinker @TEDTalks

        I listen to you here, and in other venues (Harris). I appreciate your optimism, but it seems predicated upon data sets that are not comprehensive and quantifying experiences in simple terms. eg. # of Deaths vs how people live. Eg. Population | Environment issues.

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      3. Michael Beaton‏ @mhbx May 1
        Replying to @mhbx @sapinker @TEDTalks

        2/ Others (@BretWeinstein) have made astute observations that we are in the present living on "future". I don't think I have ever heard you address this fundamental function. The present gains/successes seem to ignore how the systems are being built & the LTerm consequences.

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      2. SchizoPete‏ @PeterJohnKattz Apr 30
        Replying to @sapinker @TEDTalks

        Progress made possible with increases in complexity using ever more finite resources. Here are a few numbers: co2: 408ppm and rising. World debt: $72T rising. Microplastic ocean: 12k per liter rising. Oil: 93 bbl/day rising. #collapse

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      3. SchizoPete‏ @PeterJohnKattz May 2
        Replying to @PeterJohnKattz @sapinker @TEDTalks

        AppyPollyLoggies. World Debt is $164 Trillion dollars. Because money is created as debt and more debt is created than money this can never be payed off. The only way to keep the system going is infinite growth. Which families create money/debt is a secret.https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-04-18/world-debt-hits-record-164-trillion-as-crisis-hangover-lingers …

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