Pinker

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Pinker is a recurring person in the Astral Codex Ten archive, appearing 2 times across 2 issues between March 04, 2022 and August 23, 2023. The archive places it in contexts such as “Pinker’s tweet here”; “I would be shocked if Pinker or other rationalists actually believed this”; “It still feels like there’s something that Pinker and Yudkowsky are more in favor of”. It most often appears alongside Ajeya Cotra, atomic bomb, Ayatollah Khameini.

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• Category: People
• Mention count: 2
• Issue count: 2
• First seen: March 04, 2022
• Last seen: August 23, 2023

Appears In

• What Are We Arguing About When We Argue About Rationality?
• Critical Periods For Language: Much More Than You Wanted To Know

Related Pages

• • Ajeya Cotra (1 shared issues)
• • atomic bomb (1 shared issues)
• • Ayatollah Khameini (1 shared issues)
• • Chelsea (1 shared issues)
• • Communism (1 shared issues)
• • Democritus (1 shared issues)
• • Eliezer Yudkowsky (1 shared issues)
• • Gardner (1 shared issues)
• • Genie (1 shared issues)
• • GPTs (1 shared issues)
• • Hayek (1 shared issues)
• • Howard Gardner (1 shared issues)

External Links

• • https://abc7news.com/post/graffiti-in-san-francisco-tagging-vandalism-street/13801629/
• • https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2021/09/an-excerpt-from-steven-pinkers-latest-book-rationality/
• • https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=bUhVerAAAAAJ
• • https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/secrets-of-the-great-families
• • https://www.statista.com/chart/21581/public-opinion-on-easing-stay-at-home-restrictions/

Source Context

Recovered passages from the original issue text. When the raw archive preserved outbound links inside the source passage, they are listed directly under the quote.

What Are We Arguing About When We Argue About Rationality?

March 04, 2022 · Original source

Let’s talk about this tweet: howardgardner.com/howards-blog/r…","username":"sapinker","name":"Steven Pinker","profile_image_url":"","date":"Sat Oct 16 16:25:29 +0000 2021","photos":[],"quoted_tweet":{},"reply_count":0,"retweet_count":36,"like_count":297,"impression_count":0,"expanded_url":{},"video_url":null,"belowTheFold":false}" data-component-name="Twitter2ToDOM"> The backstory: Steven Pinker wrote a book about rationality. The book concludes it is good. People should learn how to be more rational, and then we will have fewer problems.

The backstory: Steven Pinker wrote a book about rationality. The book concludes it is good. People should learn how to be more rational, and then we will have fewer problems.

Pinker’s counterargument is dubious: Gardner’s essay avoids rationality pretty carefully. But even aside from that, it feels like Pinker is cheating, or missing the point, or being annoying. Gardner can’t be arguing that rationality is completely useless in 100% of situations. And if there’s any situation at all where you’re allowed to use rationality, surely it would be in annoying Internet arguments with Steven Pinker.

Critical Periods For Language: Much More Than You Wanted To Know

August 23, 2023 · Original source

Hartshorne, Tenenbaum, and Pinker do a big-data, fancy-statistics version of this experiment to investigate concerns like these. They got 600,000 bilingual English-speakers from around the world to complete a fun online quiz about their English grammar ability, and found the following:

Inline links: a big-data, fancy-statistics version of this experiment

I wonder if this is just the same phenomenon of declining learning rates observed by Pinker et al.

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