President's Lecture Series: Steven Pinker

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Carnegie Mellon University welcomed Steven Pinker, the Johnstone Family Professor in the Department of Psychology at Harvard University. He conducts research on language, cognition, and social relations, writes for publications such as the New York Times, Time and The Atlantic, and is the author of twelve books.
The President’s Lecture Series, hosted by Carnegie Mellon President Farnam Jahanian, is designed to engage and inspire the Carnegie Mellon community on issues of emerging and preeminent relevance to society. The series brings a curated list of thought leaders and world leaders to campus over the academic year.

[@EmperorsNewWardrobe]

4:38 Steven starts

[@ChuckSwiger]

On second play this makes much more sense :) Just for giggles - in the D:3 beer:21 puzzle I would think the relation between D and 3 is meaningless, whereas you have to be over 21 to have beer, which adds information that leads you to intuitively make the right choice - as he says right after.

[@janklaas6885]

📍51:33

[@JohnnyMagorish]

When was this recorded? It’s not mentioned in the description

[@SolamenteJames]

Mid-April. Daniel Kahneman died in late March.

[@JohnnyMagorish]

@@SolamenteJames what’s Daniel Kahneman got to do with this?

[@pinyaoliu8528]

maybe irrationality is not just a 'disease' to cure but also something to preserve in human nature

[@nillehessy]

a minute silence for all the harvard psychology experiments victims would be nice..

[@branwilly1]

This is honestly unlistenable…

[@nabormendonca5742]

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[@secondwind7322]

Professor, your arrogance is belied by your presumption of truth.

[@gonx9906]

How?