What do you think about Steven Pinker?
What do you think about Steven Pinker?
Ayn Rand is better. He lacks rationality.
You made this thread only to see Gestapo user posting about Pinker being a jew, didn't you?
jew bad
His data collection for "the better angels of our nature" was top-notch and archeological and anthropological evidence up to now overall supports his central thesis that violence is on the downswing. He is however too ideologically obstinate. Enlightenement values aren't particularly good at explaining this historic trend.
BTFO by Taleb
I like his theory about bad writing being about the 'curse of knowledge', where the writer doesn't put into words what they are trying to say in their minds. He's one of those guys who uses the random person as 'she' pronoun though. I know the zeitgeist already moved on to making women eternal victims to be endlessly catered to so it's not a big deal, but I grew up with random people pronoun 'he' and it pisses me off everytime she uses it.
>status quo good, stop questioning it and me because that's not scientific
ASS
Never read. Sexy voice.
*smacks lips*
>Pinker was born in Montreal, Quebec, in 1954, to a middle-class Jewish family.
so?
>Steve Pinkerino was born a good Italian boy from Brooklyn. He later shortened his name to Pinker in order to guarantee his success in academia.
Fpbp because all other posts before based assposter are invalid.
So he is a leaf frog.
Middle-class Canadians are subhuman.
I think he's OK. I read Words and Rules and I thought it was a good general audience introduction to linguistics. I think he's wrong about about linguistic relativity/determinism. I haven't read Better Angels and probably won't.
So it he is not only a jewish, but a canadian
Unironic bourgeois pig.
ass
I still miss Wetten dass
Other way round lol.
stevenpinker.com
Him getting supremely bothered by Nietzsche was pretty funny.
His face reminds me of White chocolate with strawberry bits.
ass
based + undersocialized
His moral objectivism is so intense it comes out as severe autism.