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Steven Pinker: AI in the Age of Reason

Lex Fridman Podcast

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Is That a Fundamental Aspect of Human Nature?

In your latest book, you talk about the power of rationality and reason. Is that a fundamental nature of human beings, or is it something we should just strive for? I both. It is one of the things that make us what we are, homosapiens, a wise man. We are unusual among animals in the degree to which we acquire knowledge use it to survive.

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