It is refreshing to hear Pinker express things with more precision and clarity than many many other interviewees on this podcast.

I like the idea of rationality because I am a champion of Manskills. A Manskill had three elements. - Requires Thought - Demands Effort - Produces some Good Being rational is absolutely essential to the first element, but I think a case can be made that it has a place in the other two as well.

I started a new country on the west coast in 2014 now I'm 1st King of the continent in the 1st Noocracy Republic!

Can't deny I learned a lot about the interviewer's opinions.

@davehogan6589

2 жыл бұрын

Yup. His idiotic bias was sadly obvious.

@artexjay

Жыл бұрын

@@davehogan6589 in which way? he was asking fair questions, going both ways, highlighting the obvious bias on those social media platforms which are not wrong.

Pinker shines!

Need to read this!

A rational interview all around

I hope everyone listened until the very, very end. Pinker says, "thanks for the conversation." That was an astute thing to say. Anyone who thought that the interviewer was expressing rather too many of his left-leaning ideas should consider this a conversation style and not a classic question/answer interview. It was engaging content as a conversation.

@davehogan6589

2 жыл бұрын

Interviewer was left leaning??? Nope

@AndreiGromit

2 жыл бұрын

Yes, I did think Steve Edgington was sort of 'leading the witness' in this interview. But even as a conversation, it seemed that Pinker was not willing to offer opposite opinions, although he did bring precision to ideas and opinions.

@garypalmer1122

2 жыл бұрын

The interviewer worked originally at the Sun - a Rupert Murdoch publication, and now works for the UK Daily Telegraph. Both of these are right wing.

@barrynewlander1469

2 жыл бұрын

The interviewer is clearly a right-winger. He even manages to fudge some facts. Pinker doesn't really belong here.

@MrPaulervin78744

Жыл бұрын

left leaning?!!? HAHAHAHHA

Just to clarify, Mueller concluded that collusion likely did occur, but the case wasn’t prosecutable. Similar to how Capone was indeed guilty, even though he couldn’t be prosecuted.

How likely will Galilean relative motion have the earth approaching the released object? 50/50 at least, or many other options? An accelerometer shows the earth approaching the released object at 16 feet per second per second constant acceleration. Too simple for the modern brain. Rational. Sure. Aren’t facts rational.

“A lie can travel around the world and back again while the truth is lacing up its boots.”-Mark Twain. The problem with giving antivaxers equal time...

@elkpaz560

2 жыл бұрын

World travel your thing then.

4:00

Pinker does his best staying on topic with an interviewer who is clearly right-wing biased and not particularly interested in rationality or the truth of things.

@desssunder5578

2 жыл бұрын

I find it interesting and great to hear how Pinker navigates such questions. It would be quite a boring interview if the interviewer just stuck to central questions and didn't ask difficult questions. it just shows how well Pinker knows his topics and highlights he's debating skills as top tier.

@davehogan6589

2 жыл бұрын

Indeed.

@baigandinel7956

2 жыл бұрын

Lazy, outdated labels assuming any of the "right wing" are not intetrested in rationality or the truth of things, do not themselves constitute any part of the search for rationality or the truth of things.

@wasdwasdedsf

2 жыл бұрын

yese, we all klnow rationality and the side of reaality is the one who unironically votd for an installed vegetable lwho cant speak, destroying the country in one year, over the best pres in modern history

Apparently praying and karma is going to resolve these world 🌎 issues What's the problem says the 🇬🇧

In the end, we gotta admit that Sweden ranks best in the world at handling the pandemic.

@dutube99

2 жыл бұрын

We do?

Fact checking has been rather unrelible to say the least.

The science =/= scientists. Just because scientists may not agree doesn’t mean science per se is in conflict. This is exactly the literalist/absolutist fallacy that the religious/right inject into this debate as a form of their own (ironic) relativism.

Obtaining realistic information is a goal of its own right. He says there can't be quality, or perfect rationality yet complains about the whole thing. Lmao this dude is comedy gold.

@matthewcurry3565

2 жыл бұрын

@@Just_Call_Me_Frank well that is easy to say without explanation. Thus is the method of irrational people. Woops.

What Pinker will never get is that prosperity is no substitute for the lack of meaning humans need.

@EmperorsNewWardrobe

2 жыл бұрын

Think of prosperity as the ideal political platform from which we can all find personal meaning. I mean, even Victor Frankl found personal meaning while captive in the concentration camps, but I think we can agree that that context was far from the ideal political platform

The right-wing conservative bias of the interviewer comes out yet again.

@willmercury

2 жыл бұрын

Hmm... Yeah. If only it had been left-wing radical activist bias.

@ruairidhmcmillan2484

2 жыл бұрын

Which question was the give away for a political bias of any kind whatsoever? Why am I asking this, this is a terrible idea.

@duncanweller1

2 жыл бұрын

I agree. Edginton is beyond the pale with his conservative opinions, so blindly it seems that it actually makes Pinker's unbiased responses so refreshing. Unfortunately I think right wingers won't listen take in anything Pinker says. I'm astonished that people think Pinker is anything like Jordan Peterson. Pinker is left-wing and has said so. Because that't the only rational way to vote in most countries. The right wing has so lost their minds.

@matimus100

2 жыл бұрын

Right or left it's cowardly

@davehogan6589

2 жыл бұрын

Indeed!

What a joke

@matimus100

2 жыл бұрын

🤡

The interviewer comes across as full of himself, over-emotional, and not intellectually qualified to conduct this kind of interview.

This guy is one of the best interviewers out there! More please!

@MarkMark

2 жыл бұрын

lol really?

@elkpaz560

2 жыл бұрын

@@MarkMark Yes.

I found the interviewer more interesting than the interviewee.

@matimus100

2 жыл бұрын

He's definitely a sheep to the system

IRONY=Him (interviewer) going tribal "conservative" rant about Trump, while saying "alot of people" thought they were being rational and the prof calming telling him what was up.