Steven Pinker makes a shocking prediction
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- čas přidán 1. 01. 2024
- Discussing the future of humanity.
Steven Pinker is a Canadian-American cognitive psychologist, psycholinguist, popular science author, and public intellectual. He is an advocate of evolutionary psychology and the computational theory of mind. Pinker is the Johnstone Family Professor of Psychology at Harvard University.
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I believe this must be pre-Ukraine war and all the other crap that is coming down now.
After covid was big news (so after feb 2020).
Trump was still in power (so before nov 2020, and before vaccine (dec 2020)
Seems like remote working was just taking off.
I'm guessing around April 2020
And people in the wealthiest countries are more unhappy than ever, despite prosperity.
Why are you so sure its true
Media driven.
Aren’t we fed better than people in the past-even the recent past, less than a century ago-though the glass is not half full it is also not half empty.
Reason is one half of an equation. Super rationality can be the equivalent of Frankenstein. Reason needs feeling to balance it. Feeling needs reason to balance it. It is best to follow the Middle Way advised by Religion, Philosophy and Psychology, negotiating a path between reason and feeling, not emphasizing one or the other.
The first warning to be suspicious of a celebrity academic is when the lionshare of their comments are about subjects outside of their research discipline.
The world looks rosey from Harvard
Atheistism and a disrespect for nature is a real problem. Native peoples always maintained balance in nature. Now with factory farming and other horrors how nature is dealt with is horrific. It is inevitable that there will be a backlash as there is intelligence there, it is not dumb.
You don't know how native American hunted buffalos almost towards extinction? Stop this pure innocent "savage" narrative, the natives hate it.
I'd say religiosity is the problem, those folks believe that the earth and everything in it was put here for our convenience.
Fire departments only put out a fire, you say, every other year? Wait! What?
What area are you speaking about?
That's not what I read.
Source?
Every small town has a fire station, there would be many thousands where there is no major fire for a few years, at least.
Are you included in the statement "Most people are completly ignorant"
the warburgs created hilter
tent city
This stupid chearpicking optimism is devoid of any usefulness.
WEF / WHO - puppets 🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬
maybe not voting for right wing extremists would help
@@opensocietyenjoyer actually that would help - nowadays bullshit is a consequence of all those stupid left wing extremist aka communists.
left wing extremists are not represented in power whatsoever. they are powerless on every level.@@Satyr1971
@@Satyr1971 you're part of the problem if you think that way. Pick up a book on 20th century history of Asia, Western Europe or Latin America and see how that didn't solve anything.
@@Satyr1971I doubt you could even define the word 'communist'.
Facts are not data. Pinker’s data are optimism-backed. Most people are completely ignorant that he lost the bet to Marin Rees for the prediction of COVID-19. (So what? The death rate is still smaller than a century ago!) The paradox is: US, with the most advanced medical technology, gets the trophy of the highest death toll in the pandemic!
Pinker never touches on the data of Global warming, nor Mental Illness (that’s a shame for a psychologist.) However, those tragic facts could be transformed into GDP numbers, supporting his narrative of Perpetual Progress.
In other news, this snow ball proves global warming is bunk.
@@robertsouth6971 That's exactly Pinker's agenda:
Don't get in the way of capitalists' profit making.
Yes let's trust china with the data, and faucci.
@@lloydgush Do you mean NASA’s data is more trustworthy? But they couldn’t build a decent space station and killed Americans in the accidents of the space shuttle Columbia and Challengers.
I guess you should read Jeffery Sachs, who conducted a thorough investigation of COVID-19, for a more comprehensive picture of the case.
@@lloydgush How about trusting NASA？But it killed many people in the space shuttle accidents of Columbia and Challenger.
Before trusting anything, better read Jeffery Sachs, who conducted a more thorough investigation on COVID-19.
I used to respect him. But he is a complete nonsense.
At least he uses complete sentences
Insufferable
Liar