Marcus du Sautoy Meets Steven Pinker - Why Rationality Matters
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Is There a Role for Persuasion?
For some people, til they'll go to their grave believing it. But with many convictions, there's a continuum of o degree of belief. So i do believe that there is a role for persuasion. I wouldn't go to probability school or make critical thinking probability part of the curriculum. We should have academic freedom, where you can broach an idea and it can be attacked, but not you the idea. In liberal democracy, we have freedom of speech. We haver open debate. I journalismot editing and fact checking. All of them are regimes of rules that push back against everyone’s tendency to want to be right - even if other people say otherwise. And those un
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