What our language habits reveal
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What our language habits reveal
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"Brevity is the soul of wit" is an example of itself. Clip from my longer interview with @david_perell (on X) on writing. | Steven Pinker
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"Brevity is the soul of wit" is an example of itself. Clip from my longer interview with @david_perell (on X) on writing. | Steven Pinker
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Human nature and the blank slate
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Human nature and the blank slate
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Trump's approach is qualitatively different than what we've seen before. As we see in the appointment of a crackpot as the Secretary for Health and Human Sciences, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., and as we see in the imposition of tariffs that no thinker in their right mind could endorse, there's a lot of just pleasure in watching things burn. (From a Reason interview with Nick Gillespie in April.) | Steven Pinker
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Trump's approach is qualitatively different than what we've seen before. As we see in the appointment of a crackpot as the Secretary for Health and Human Sciences, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., and as we see in the imposition of tariffs that no thinker in their right mind could endorse, there's a lot of just pleasure in watching things burn. (From a Reason interview with Nick Gillespie in April.) | Steven Pinker
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A lot of our indirect speech isn’t about passing the salt. It’s about, like, you know, sexual come-ons: “Do you want to, you know, come up for Netflix and chill?” Or veiled threats, like, “Nice store you got there. It would be a real shame if something happened to it.” Or veiled bribes, like, “Gee, officers, is there some way we can settle the ticket here without, you know, doing all that paperwork?” Clip on indirect speech and common knowledge, the topic of my new book, from an interview with R
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A lot of our indirect speech isn’t about passing the salt. It’s about, like, you know, sexual come-ons: “Do you want to, you know, come up for Netflix and chill?” Or veiled threats, like, “Nice store you got there. It would be a real shame if something happened to it.” Or veiled bribes, like, “Gee, officers, is there some way we can settle the ticket here without, you know, doing all that paperwork?” Clip on indirect speech and common knowledge, the topic of my new book, from an interview with R
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Steven Pinker explains how changing the rules of the game can help us all win and prevent climate change. Watch the full interview now on YouTube: https://youtu.be/8DHHt2sOmzw You can listen to the podcast on all good podcast apps and on apple podcasts here: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/ways-to-change-the-world-with-krishnan-guru-murthy/id1359195562 | Channel 4 News
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Steven Pinker explains how changing the rules of the game can help us all win and prevent climate change. Watch the full interview now on YouTube: https://youtu.be/8DHHt2sOmzw You can listen to the podcast on all good podcast apps and on apple podcasts here: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/ways-to-change-the-world-with-krishnan-guru-murthy/id1359195562 | Channel 4 News
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In this exchange with Maher, I explain how Trump created a new norm—making truth optional. Maher: Don't you think it has something to do also with the confidence with which you back up your bullshit? I mean, we're going to talk about the economy on the panel. I think he has for the economy. I don't see good things on the horizon. Steve [Stephen Moore] will just obviously argue with me about that. But Trump has what I call contagious confidence. He is so bullish and so confident. Well, he must kn
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In this exchange with Maher, I explain how Trump created a new norm—making truth optional. Maher: Don't you think it has something to do also with the confidence with which you back up your bullshit? I mean, we're going to talk about the economy on the panel. I think he has for the economy. I don't see good things on the horizon. Steve [Stephen Moore] will just obviously argue with me about that. But Trump has what I call contagious confidence. He is so bullish and so confident. Well, he must kn
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Discussing common knowledge with Bill Maher. Common knowledge is the topic of my new book: When Everyone Knows That Everyone Knows...: Common Knowledge and the Mysteries of Money, Power, and Everyday Life. https://stevenpinker.com/publications/when-everyone-knows-everyone-knows-common-knowledge-and-mysteries-money-power-and Maher: What's the phrase of the book when everyone knows that everyone knows? Okay, so explain what that means. Me: Yes, so when everyone knows that everyone knows. When I kn
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