Is life better than ever for the human race? | GZERO World with Ian Bremmer
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- Was the Beatles' Paul McCartney right - is it getting better all the time? Ian Bremmer and Harvard psychologist Stephen Pinker discuss the state of human progress.
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Was the Beatles' Paul McCartney right - is it getting better all the time? On GZERO World, Ian Bremmer and Harvard psychologist Stephen Pinker talk about human progress and how we define it. Sure, it's great that we're not currently being chased by saber-toothed tigers. Life is better than death. Health is preferable to sickness. Freedom? We'll take it over tyranny any day of the week.
In short, we know life is better today than it was for most of our ancestors, but how do we measure that progress? And at what point does the technology that has improved our lives come back to bite us? We're looking at you, AI. Pinker shares his counterintuitive take on the state of the world. How does his optimism (as welcome as it might be) stack up against the undeniable sorry state of the world today? From war in Ukraine to a persistent pandemic to a resurgence of extreme global poverty, things feel...bad. And yet, Pinker remains relatively positive.
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Sam Altman warning of extinction risk by his own product is not like your mechanic telling you your brakes may not work. It's more like your car manufacturer telling the dealership your breaks may not work, then pressuring them to either accept new terms or assume the risk themselves.
These interviews should be longer
Thanks! Great content. More metathinking, please.
Great topic and video, Love Dr. Pinkers work
Commercial with George Washington popped up in the middle of the discussion on Americans being below par… but it looked like the same guy and I didn’t realize it was a commercial for the longest time and was so confused.
A great talk with 2 very knowledgeable people, only 214 likes in nearly 3 months?
As an American expat, my observation is there's something that's a bit different about the US. It a society more directed at giving the ambitious and clever folks from around the world the best place to make their lives. I've also observed that the US expectation of immigrants (of which the US has ¼ of the world's immigrants) to make something of their lives largely works well and gives immigrants much more mobility than in Europe, Canada, or Australia. But not everyone hits the ground running, and not everyone is going to set the business world on fire, and in the US that's a bit more difficult. It could be because of social safety nets, but I think it's sinply more often that we feel like failures because the bar is set so high. Americans have a tendency to think success is more common than it is and they feel inferior. The bar is much lower and most ofher societies that I can think of.
I'm not so sure you can have American ambition without a seemingly irrational sense of failure.
I also reckon on the obesity thing and many heath issues, the word may follow the US lead. Anecdotally you see quite a lot lf obesity in Australia, Canada, and Britain. This is not some sort of good news schadenfreude. It's not good news at all.
Because things are "better" doesn't mean we can't go backwards and fast. Also I think things have been better for a large portion of the world other parts have gone backwards for the poor and poor countries which is why so many risk life and limb to try to immagrate to wealthy countries which is disrupting so many governments here and in Europe. Finally technology one one hand but at the same time made us lonelier, more isolated, and feeling powerless.
When do you tell everyone what they lose on the depreciation of durable consumer goods.
What is the failure rate of washing machines?
Good question. My parents still have their first washer and dryer. Yes. It has worked for more than 50 years. Yet ours keep breaking. Plastic parts that used to be metal don't last as long. Theirs are worth fixing. Is it worth fixing a cheaply made less durable product that regularly breaks down?
Our newest washer was bought brand new and has a 10 year warranty, but so? Will the company still exist in 10 years? Using their product means I signed away my tort rights. It goes to binding arbitration if there is a problem. It took all my pay from 50 hours of work to pay for it. How much was it for my parents??
And Humane Tech get on board everybody!
Be for Net Neutrality and the Electronic Frontier foundation!!!
This is very simply because of the difference in population and density, I mean are you referencing Greece? I think Steven Pinker is wring about a few things I've written documents on, like bringing economics to crime when the dollar has raised in value since forgery was made illegal by Reagan. This reminds me of the 1 in 4 women are assaulted on campus junk he didn't show any evidence, how am I drawing my own conclusion?
Neither the Doctor nor the interviewer practices the art of daily brisk walking because if they did it’d be easily discernible in their countenances. If you practice the art of daily brisk walking it’ll change your physicality, your countenance, your mind and then quite possibly your life. Here’s how:
Walk briskly everyday for the mathematical benefits that payoff like compounding interest. Open your eyes slightly wider. Walk briskly while swinging both of your arms and using your eyes for things both near and far.
That’s it, it really is that simple.
Take a selfie before you begin this program of brisk walking and then take another after some time has passed. The difference will be easily discernible and readily apparent.
What’s a brisk pace? Make an AC/DC playlist and try to keep up.
Why is this so effective? Millions of years of adaptation and evolution.
*Check with your Doctor because the power of daily brisk walking is that powerful.
**Dress lightly so you don’t overheat, feel sick and quit.
That’s it, oh and remember to have as much fun as possible because we’re trying to rewire the brain and create more “feel good” chemicals.
PS- The next time you see either of these men they will appear different. One of the attributes of daily brisk walking is this feeling of aging in reverse. Google; daily brisk walking and telomeres.
PSS- Respectfully, Dr. Pinker isn’t my first doctor, I feel like I’ve covered most doctors and scientists that people can name easily, ie; television doctors and scientists.
Poverty rates have been heavily manipulated. Can we really trust them?
Data please!
Chat GBT does lie!!!
7:30 if globalization contributes to peace... what happens now that globalization is ending???
There is a significant opportunity cost, we will be less well off than we should have been, but globalization isn't ending, just not doing as well as it should.
@@jaxvoice718Globalization will continue benignly, but not according to western agenda.
Globalisation is not ending. It is simply going through some turbulence.
Globalization isn't ending. I play video games with people from all over the globe every day. Then I start doing business with them for various things. As long as we can talk to people across the world in seconds and travel/send cargo anywhere within a few days then globalization is here to stay.
Consensus... Hitler, Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot, etc... all managed to garner consensus.
Life may be better than ever for the human race, but it comes at great expense to the natural world. The answer is a big NO if you're not humans or one of our plants or animals.
Overall, yes absolutely. But even here the picture is mixed. Many species have come back from brink of extinction, pollution has been curtailed and we've cleaned up our act. Europe used to be an open sewer and unhealthy place fifty years ago, with car centric developments, forests and lakes desolated by acid rain. Nature hasn't fully recovered, but it is recovering. Same story goes for Japan, Singapore, and more recently China (in part, they have just begun this process).
Climate change is an other risk to stressed-out ecosystems, but the good news is that the means to end it, ending fossil fuels and destructive land use, also makes our lives better, cleaner and healthier, and gives nature some breathing room.
I get your point, but it's a hefty personification of things that don't "think" that way. Even a vertebrate is not going to see things in terms of what's good for the species. Individuals are about the individuals, and males compete with males, for example, for mates. I wholeheartedly agree with the position that habitat destruction is making our world less rish, but that's me talking from my values. No Baobabs need be interviewed for such a position.
@@thomasjgallagher924 Individuals being selfish certainly makes sense before industrialization, however I've read that industrialization, along with fossil fuels give humans 100x the power that we had before. A farmer using a tractor to mow down a forest to create farmland to feed his family is normal in modern times, however we don't take into account what lived there before is now gone. The abundance of energy leads to a lot of waste. We waste 40-50% of our food, we burn most of our gasoline to move 4000 lbs of metal just to move 200 lbs of flesh. Our planet's natural systems didn't evolve so that one species could have so much power. We are essentially gods now, but we've skirted the responsibilities.
@@gr8bkset-524 Individual as in "an individual bower bird" or "individual baobab tree". My point is that your initial statement is a value statement of the human sort overlayed on the natural world. That doesn't mean it's any less important. In other words, "nature" doesn't care about global warming. We do... well some of us.
Totally untrue, and I don’t mean to sound aggressive I say with with the utmost concern, love, and respect for you and for the natural environment but it has been brutal propaganda. We have substantially more forests than we had 300 years ago. We have larger animal populations (even if we are farming them. And no, they’re not all being factory farmed and I’m against factory farming). The word is much greener. In fact, the real scientific literature that the media doesn’t like to talk about is that our planet was begin to approach the end of a carbon cycle that would have destroyed almost all plant and animal life within a few centuries, and our carbon industrial output literally saved the planet because plants breathe carbon dioxide. First it was global cooling scares, then it was global warming, now it’s climate change or oscillates between the two. The founder of green peace itself has abandoned the organization for its corruption and is now saying the Industrial Revolution saved plant and animal life from collapsing on a mass extinction level lol. For our own sakes and those of animals, we really need to worry about microplastics, endocrine districting chemicals in our food additives, pesticides, colognes, cleaning products, soaps, etc as well as contraceptives all going into the water table and the oceans. That is legitimately harming the environment and we need to keep working towards better technologies to eliminate those problems. But we do, so there is hope. Sturdier and less reactive forms of plastic keep being invented, recently bacteria have been discovered who can break down plastic waste, more people are learning about the dangers of the pill, etc. Humans are special because we learn and adapt, we will not destroy ourselves or the planet. Every year new industrial filters are invented to capture more harmful chemicals and more efficient ways to use energy. Now, plastic can even safely be burned with the right filters. Plus, people didn’t have nearly enough kids since the 1960s, and most economies are going to collapse by 2035-2050 due to demographic collapse. So “too many people” is a horrid lie that’s going to cause extreme suffering for billions of people and extreme damage to environment as economies fail and people and governments become too poor to worry about things like spending extra money on environmental safety and are just fighting to make it. If you really listen to the few experts who actually have a real opinion and don’t just accept and echo what their corporate overlords tell them to prattle, the situation at hand is a complete paradigm shift.
Nowadays best human improvement is that people finally realize the capitalism system is not solution, rather the problem. USA’s track records proved it.
All economic improvement comes from capitalism, even ostensibly communist countries like China and Vietnam. May not exactly be US style capitalism, but capitalism all the same.
Capitalism alone does not ensure wellbeing however, it is just one of the tools we need.
@@jaxvoice718 No, most American nowadays achievements were done by strong government’s stimulations decades ago, instead of capital. Internet would be the best example.
@@jaxvoice718 Nowadays EV car tech is subsidized by all governments, instead of private business.
@@kshen7485 I could agree with you in as far that if you don't believe in good governance you will be at a disadvantage, and US should do better.
It is not the country with better artists, soldiers, entrepreneurs or scientists who wins, but the country with better bureaucrats.
@@jaxvoice718 Now, except the bubble economy in your proud America, how could you compete with a “dictatorship” China? If it isn’t problematic, why do all your society and parties have so much worries and declare biochemical war, economic war and high tech war against this “hopeless” China?
Sure is feeling like the world is in a better place now. 🤣
Stephen Pinker should stick to linguistics, or neuroscience, or whatever it is he does to sell books.
That's nice about laundry, but more people killed themselves last year in the US than any year before it.
You want to focus on a metric for the modern world? Let's talk mental health.
There are recent fluctuations but no evidence of long term decline.
@@nidhavellir "More people killed themselves last year than ever before."
"Okay, but only recently."
Maybe because people are more isolated and have been living more precarious lives in recent decades.
China boy Ian Bremmer, another negative video about America. I wish this guy would just leave.