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Analysis of 200 tweets by Steven Pinker, from 05 Feb 2023 to 22 Mar 2023.

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Steven Pinker

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Cognitive scientist at Harvard.

11,838 tweets
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2010 since
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Steven Pinker
@sapinker
Inspiring speech by Nobel Peace Prize laureate Oscar Arias on the 35th anniversary of his award | We remember to continue making a better life possible https://t.co/gncUPSEINT
22 Mar, 2023 - 05:45 PM UTC
Steven Pinker
@sapinker
Good conversation with my colleague, former Harvard Med School Dean Jeffery Flier. https://t.co/Jx9tdjbn0U
22 Mar, 2023 - 02:30 PM UTC
Steven Pinker
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Education Commentary is Dominated by Optimism Bias, according to @freddiesubstack, though I'd narrow it down to the doctrine of the Blank Slate. https://t.co/rYsScYW1Np
22 Mar, 2023 - 04:19 AM UTC
Steven Pinker
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Another excellent analysis, this one by @ourworldindata's @HannahRitchie We need the right kind of climate optimism https://t.co/YCNiWS2fyO via @voxdotcom
22 Mar, 2023 - 03:57 AM UTC
Steven Pinker
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The doomers are wrong about humanity’s future — and its past. Excellent case by @bryanrwalsh, echoing & expanding arguments I made in Enlightenment Now. https://t.co/mO1Qk8yUz4 via @voxdotcom
22 Mar, 2023 - 03:48 AM UTC
Steven Pinker
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Over-diagnosing democratic decline https://t.co/81wvNUsTTR
22 Mar, 2023 - 03:19 AM UTC
Steven Pinker
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Evolutionary psychology, contra the canards, is a deep and predictive discipline -- Evolutionary biologist Jerry Coyne @whyevolutionistrue reviews 4 excellent articles by @LaithAlShawaf https://t.co/Qk2Fx3aoO6 via @Evolutionistrue
22 Mar, 2023 - 02:49 AM UTC
Steven Pinker
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Algorithms and artificial intelligence may be changing our world and behavior in ways we don't fully understand. Here's what humans need to keep in mind. Good interview with cognitive psychologist (and major influence on my thinking) Gerd Gigerenzer. https://t.co/vRd5WBBRx9
22 Mar, 2023 - 02:44 AM UTC
Steven Pinker
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Photographers everywhere are mourning the closure of the indispensable https://t.co/zgP1xTcaCJ, mysteriously killed by parent company Amazon. https://t.co/3ohwnhwIyF
22 Mar, 2023 - 02:29 AM UTC
Steven Pinker
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OFFICIAL TRAILER | Oliver Stone's NUCLEAR NOW | DOCUMENTARY https://t.co/srbpXhHNIc via @YouTube
21 Mar, 2023 - 07:05 PM UTC
Steven Pinker
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How progress happens: Not everywhere all at once; there are always reversals & exceptions. But with some humanistic trends, the spread of ideas makes resistance is futile. Taliban Leader Faces Blowback Over Girls’ School Ban—From His Own Movement - WSJ https://t.co/TmZ1YtVg9A
21 Mar, 2023 - 01:56 PM UTC
Steven Pinker
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The climate challenge isn't just that fossil fuels emit C02; it's also that Dems don't control govt always everywhere forever. To solve climate change, stop branding it a left-wing crusade. | How to Make Climate Change a Bipartisan Priority https://t.co/uMXWfMHpcu via @politico
21 Mar, 2023 - 02:54 AM UTC
Steven Pinker
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Nature ever astonishes.... https://t.co/KOlQwkMN7S
20 Mar, 2023 - 09:05 PM UTC
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Credit where it's due: "Compared to just two years ago, the NY Times’ reporting is more trustworthy, its Opinion section more ideologically diverse, and its management more sturdy." The New York Times Is Finally Moving on From 2020 https://t.co/dGswbjFZDA
20 Mar, 2023 - 09:04 PM UTC
Steven Pinker
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As a child I had measles, mumps, rubella, and chickenpox, all rare in developed countries today, thanks to one of humanity's greatest inventions, the vaccine. The success of chickenpox vaccines, by Dr. Saloni Dattani @salonium https://t.co/LAaQ9loGP0
20 Mar, 2023 - 07:48 PM UTC
Steven Pinker
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Why read The Blank Slate? Recommendation by the behavioral geneticist Robert Plomin, on the newish book recommendation site https://t.co/ud4RuYkDTx. https://t.co/At00eCYTp2
20 Mar, 2023 - 07:40 PM UTC
Steven Pinker
@sapinker
Meet Anisfield-Wolf Book Award winner Adrian Matejka, Cuyahoga County Public Library, where he'll announce the winners of the 88th Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards for literature on racism and diversity. (I'm privileged to have served on the jury for 21 yrs.) https://t.co/YvJnCYF9vn
20 Mar, 2023 - 07:30 PM UTC
Steven Pinker
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New documentary by Oliver Stone on nuclear power, co-written by my collaborator Joshua Goldstein. I'll be co-hosting a sneak preview at Harvard's Center for the Environment and Salata Institute in early April. https://t.co/Qipgt71drc
20 Mar, 2023 - 07:07 PM UTC
Steven Pinker
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And speaking of happiness, Global happiness has been 'remarkably resilient' over the past three years https://t.co/ZaaUQZucMn via @TheWeek
20 Mar, 2023 - 06:04 PM UTC
Steven Pinker
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Happy Happiness Day! International Day of Happiness | United Nations https://t.co/YVttcTrHay
20 Mar, 2023 - 05:51 PM UTC
Steven Pinker
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International Day of Happiness | United Nations https://t.co/YVttcTrHay
20 Mar, 2023 - 05:50 PM UTC
Steven Pinker
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Under- or nonreported good news on Maternal Mortality, a Treaty for the High Seas, the Restoration of the Atlantic Forest, & much else from @future_crunch https://t.co/JD6JiRdfqF
19 Mar, 2023 - 09:41 PM UTC
Steven Pinker
@sapinker
I've pondered too. Perhaps: 1 A composite averages away the flaws in each doc, just as a composite face is prettier than its inputs. 2 GPT overweights edited text like NYT. 3 Human feedback downvotes bad output. 4 Post-processing, like the wokish apologies for sensitive topics. https://t.co/0J37mvnrWC
19 Mar, 2023 - 02:01 PM UTC
Steven Pinker
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Bill Gates: We Must Fight Pandemics Like We Fight Fires https://t.co/vUN4FU9NuS
19 Mar, 2023 - 01:50 PM UTC
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Excellent syntactic ambiguity (and reminder that punctuation matters) from financial journalist Matt Klein: “This was more a case of a ‘bank-run by idiots’ rather than a ‘bank run by idiots.’"
19 Mar, 2023 - 01:16 PM UTC
Steven Pinker
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'Please' Is No Longer Polite - The Atlantic. (I suggest that its recent possible decline is driven by the tension between the fear of seeming rude & the fear of seeming fulsome, & the historical trend toward informalization.) https://t.co/uBKm8FeBn9
18 Mar, 2023 - 10:02 PM UTC
Steven Pinker
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Scientific journal behemoth Elsevier unveils its policy on The Use of AI and AI-assisted Technologies in Scientific Writing here. https://t.co/SW42OGSu9J
18 Mar, 2023 - 06:56 PM UTC
Steven Pinker
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In Rationality, I (semi-whimsically) include an index of 90+ cognitive biases, but surely the human mind isn't just a mass of biases. A Proposed Common Framework of Belief-Consistent Information Processing for ..Biases - Aileen Oeberst, Roland Imhoff,2023 https://t.co/YpVcMLP3fl
18 Mar, 2023 - 03:27 PM UTC
Steven Pinker
@sapinker
The world faces big challenges, but an AI turning us into paperclips isn't one of them. I take on the misconception that intelligence comes bundled w megalomania & is a magical potion that in sufficient quantities can achieve any outcome. @RichardHanania https://t.co/WaLADFocGa
18 Mar, 2023 - 03:14 PM UTC
Steven Pinker
@sapinker
The disappointing thing about the NYer profile of philosopher Agnes Callard & her men openly analyzing their marriages is how shallow & obtuse the analyses are, a symptom of the humanities' incuriosity about deep ideas from the sciences... https://t.co/99DsdQeybb via @NewYorker
17 Mar, 2023 - 05:55 PM UTC

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My new pice in @TIME is a profile of the most interesting think tank in American politics https://t.co/TEuPfdQCsO
07 Mar, 2023 - 02:30 PM UTC

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