Joe Rogan and Steven Pinker discuss the controversy surrounding a tweet that Steven made.
Taken from Joe Rogan Experience #1073: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VUDAdOdF6Zg
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A lie (or admission), even done with good intentions, will just make people angry. You have to argue out in the open, if you have the best points your side will win. I understand wanting to live in a world where we can fully move past a debate, but that isn’t reality. People believe the earth is flat, no subject ever disappears completely. We are born into a world where discussions have going on for thousands of years, but every individual starts knowing nothing.
“There are average differences between men and women. And that’s often quite taboo in intellectual circles.”
I think we need a new word for people we used to call intellectual
I want to see Yuval noah harari on jre. Dana please lets make it happen.
In 2007, Pinker gave his expert interpretation as a linguist of the wording of a federal law pertaining to the enticement of minors into illegal sex acts via the internet. This opinion was provided to Alan Dershowitz, a personal friend of Pinker's, who was the defense attorney for Jeffrey Epstein, resulting in a plea deal in which all federal sex trafficking charges against Epstein were dropped.
Started out as a criticism of what is deemed the "alt-right," but ended up being just as much (or more of) a criticism of the Left.