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Episode 14: Steven Pinker and Melinda Gates

Morality in the 21st Century

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How to Accept Humility in Science and Rationalism

Nicha is so popular among many intellectuals and artists that he valorizes what the brilliant artist can do as the ultimate moral good. And it was a short step, one, of course, promoted avidly by his sister, to translate nica's ideas from the individual superman to the superior race. We know from history that people are very confident in beliefs that turn out later to be wrong. The entire process of science and rational inquiry is accepting one's humility as a knower. That's why we subject our hypotheses to empirical testing, let the world tell us whether we're right or wrong.

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