It is interesting that Pinker and Taleb are on the same side in some ways (anti-pomo-blank-slate academia).
You could say Taleb’s philosophy is mostly just Pinker’s with an added disaster reinsurance policy and only installing apps that are at least 1000 years old.
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And the occasional black swan
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I disagree. Pinker doesn’t understand “Scientism” or does not view it as a criticism in the way that Taleb and others intend
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