President's Lecture Series: Steven Pinker

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Carnegie Mellon University welcomed Steven Pinker, the Johnstone Family Professor in the Department of Psychology at Harvard University. He conducts research on language, cognition, and social relations, writes for publications such as the New York Times, Time and The Atlantic, and is the author of twelve books.
The President’s Lecture Series, hosted by Carnegie Mellon President Farnam Jahanian, is designed to engage and inspire the Carnegie Mellon community on issues of emerging and preeminent relevance to society. The series brings a curated list of thought leaders and world leaders to campus over the academic year.

[@EmperorsNewWardrobe]

4:38 Steven starts

[@ChuckSwiger]

On second play this makes much more sense :) Just for giggles - in the D:3 beer:21 puzzle I would think the relation between D and 3 is meaningless, whereas you have to be over 21 to have beer, which adds information that leads you to intuitively make the right choice - as he says right after.

[@JohnnyMagorish]

When was this recorded? It’s not mentioned in the description

[@SolamenteJames]

Mid-April. Daniel Kahneman died in late March.

[@JohnnyMagorish]

@@SolamenteJames what’s Daniel Kahneman got to do with this?

[@zom5959]

​@@JohnnyMagorish he mentions in the video that kanhman died 3 weeks ago.

[@janklaas6885]

📍51:33

[@nillehessy]

a minute silence for all the harvard psychology experiments victims would be nice..

[@Minimmalmythicist]

The 1990s wasn´t a great time for democracy, in fact in the West it´s when democratic rights started to recede substantially (the only ones that have improved are LGBT ones). Things like the right to strike, freedom of speech, freedom of association have all deteriorated since then, the 90s and the 00s was when France began it´s crackdown on freedom of religion.

[@pinyaoliu8528]

maybe irrationality is not just a 'disease' to cure but also something to preserve in human nature

[@Minimmalmythicist]

there are times when irrationality doesn´t do much harm, i.e If you support Liverpool FC just because your father was from Liverpool, there´s no harm in that.
Tribalism is one of the things that makes team sports fun. The problem comes when you try to use your tribal instincts to solve complex political issues and that´s exactly what is going wrong now.

[@branwilly1]

This is honestly unlistenable…

[@nabormendonca5742]

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[@secondwind7322]

Professor, your arrogance is belied by your presumption of truth.

[@gonx9906]

How?