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Steven Pinker in race-science podcast shocker
(www.theguardian.com)
Pedophile to transphobe pipeline...
Just once I'd like a popular N.American public intellectual to not be a grifter.
For those who don't know, Pinker is a 'techno-optimist' which means that he believes that iphones and AI are going to solve all the problems of neoliberalism.
If you've ever heard the argument "but poverty worldwide is down and we're living in an unprecedented era of peace", it's this fucking guy.
The whole "TED" circuit is just Shark-Tank for academics. Only instead of good business ideas, they're competing to reassure rich liberals that they're good people and the status quo is moral and right.
Douglas Adams once identified these guys as a class of prostitute, then cleverly wrote it in a funny book so that no one would get mad at him.
Fork found in kitchen
"Shocker", yeah right. Least surprising appearance ever.
Perhaps more of a stinker than a shocker.
How could anyone Nazi it coming?
New rule: you're not allowed to tell people to shut up and look at the numbers unless you're actually good at math.
Emil Kirkegaard
Drink!
Didn’t know of his existence, but now I know to avoid.
you lucky
i remember him a while ago, pseudoscience about race/psychology. hes like the frank greene(string theory nonsense) of psychology
and so it begins
this post was submitted on 07 Jun 2025
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Hurling ordure at the TREACLES, especially those closely related to LessWrong.
AI-Industrial-Complex grift is fine as long as it sufficiently relates to the AI doom from the TREACLES. (Though TechTakes may be more suitable.)
This is sneer club, not debate club. Unless it's amusing debate.
[Especially don't debate the race scientists, if any sneak in - we ban and delete them as unsuitable for the server.]
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