
Dr. Steven Pinker: Psychologist, psycholinguist and author
Behind The Tech with Kevin Scott
Why Does Rationality Matter?
Rudeness is a title of your new book. Why does rationality matter at all? People who are more rational, in the sense that they are less likely to fall a prey to the various fallacies and biases that cognitive psychologists have identified do, on average, have had better comes. The universe contains some force called progress that's kind of mystical. In fact, if anything, the universe tries to grind us down. To the extent that life gets better, it's only because people have applied their ingenuity to try to make it better. E we've invented antibiotics and vaccines andd in intergovernmental organizations and liberal democracies, brain children, thata, got to fight back against less cosmos
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