Amazing how much the title of this article was improved by stripping out the clickbait phrasing. Anyway, I thought this was a fairly good breakdown of the major issues in the views of Steven...
Amazing how much the title of this article was improved by stripping out the clickbait phrasing. Anyway, I thought this was a fairly good breakdown of the major issues in the views of Steven Pinker, author of The Better Angels of Our Nature, and a leading figure of the technological optimism movement. I would be interested in hearing people's thoughts on it.
Standard meta disclaimer: I think this was a bit of a tossup between ~enviro and ~humanities, so I split the difference and posted it to ~misc.
Damn fine article. I hadn't heard of the doughnut economic model before, either. Seems like a better way of modeling economics. I'll need to do some more reading on it, thanks for that.
Damn fine article. I hadn't heard of the doughnut economic model before, either. Seems like a better way of modeling economics. I'll need to do some more reading on it, thanks for that.
But it's still rather clickbaity. Steven Pinker is mainly a psychologist and a linguist. Which set of his ideas are fatally flawed? All of them in all areas? Some of them in some areas? Some of...
But it's still rather clickbaity. Steven Pinker is mainly a psychologist and a linguist. Which set of his ideas are fatally flawed? All of them in all areas? Some of them in some areas? Some of them about one particular topic? Turns out it's (seemingly, just skimmed) politics. So the best title for this would've been "Steven Pinker’s political ideas are fatally flawed."
I suppose that was slightly ambiguous, but like other scientist-celebrities, he's not really known for his academic work. Rather, he is almost entirely known for his books on social progress, and...
I suppose that was slightly ambiguous, but like other scientist-celebrities, he's not really known for his academic work. Rather, he is almost entirely known for his books on social progress, and this article was largely written in response to his recent book, Enlightenment Now.
Amazing how much the title of this article was improved by stripping out the clickbait phrasing. Anyway, I thought this was a fairly good breakdown of the major issues in the views of Steven Pinker, author of The Better Angels of Our Nature, and a leading figure of the technological optimism movement. I would be interested in hearing people's thoughts on it.
Standard meta disclaimer: I think this was a bit of a tossup between ~enviro and ~humanities, so I split the difference and posted it to ~misc.
Damn fine article. I hadn't heard of the doughnut economic model before, either. Seems like a better way of modeling economics. I'll need to do some more reading on it, thanks for that.
But it's still rather clickbaity. Steven Pinker is mainly a psychologist and a linguist. Which set of his ideas are fatally flawed? All of them in all areas? Some of them in some areas? Some of them about one particular topic? Turns out it's (seemingly, just skimmed) politics. So the best title for this would've been "Steven Pinker’s political ideas are fatally flawed."
I suppose that was slightly ambiguous, but like other scientist-celebrities, he's not really known for his academic work. Rather, he is almost entirely known for his books on social progress, and this article was largely written in response to his recent book, Enlightenment Now.