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Is progress inevitable? Cognitive scientist Steven Pinker offers an answer.
From Steven Pinker’s Long Now Seminar “A New Enlightenment”:
http://longnow.org/seminars/02018/mar/13/new-enlightenment/
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Normalcy bias. It happens to the best of us. Base rate fallacy is a b*tch.
Do not (only) integrate the subtitles in the video, please. Youtube has a special feature, for that, to improve translations, lip-sigh recognition, voice separation, and voice recognition. Thanks.
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Clear, lucid, brilliant, as usual.