https://www.currentaffairs.org/news/2018/08/comic-steven-pinker-certified-grief-counselor
I don’t keep this link on hand, I just google “pinker comic” and find it.
swlabr
joined 2 years ago
Pinker tries not to be a total caricature of himself challenge: profoundly impossible
specifically this caricature:
Has Klezra Ein ever used the term “useful idiot”?
David Gerard: keikaku.jpg
Tracing Woodgrains: malding
Well, I can see the distinction being important. I'm sure the adult baby/ageplay crowd don't want their good reputation stained by these chuds
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a startup offering IQ screening for IVF embryos
Is this… the perfect grift?
Wasn’t there some big post on LW about how pattern matching isn’t intelligence?
offering sora will only make them sore-er
Early covid (july 2020) interview:
https://archive.is/Sesfj
charitable take: he has the good sense to not make any major claims about the pandemic, other than to speculate that it would worsen his go-to metric of “extreme poverty”, which is… fine, i guess.
neutral take: nothing extraordinarily damning other than his usual takes.
uncharitable: this is of course early pandemic, so maybe pinker hasn’t found the angle to sell his normal shit with.
Side note: does pinker ever wonder about why extreme poverty has been reduced? I can’t imagine he thinks it’s anything other than liberal democracy and US foreign interference, when the real answer is like, China (a country that Pinker definitely believes is counter to said liberal democracy and the US) continuing to develop economically. Basically i want to him to squirm as he tries and fails to resolve the cognitive dissonance.