
Steven Pinker: AI in the Age of Reason
Lex Fridman Podcast
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The Psychology of Negativity
Being negative about the future makes you sound smarter than being positive. We are, as a species, more attuned to the negative than the positive. A book called the history of force by James paine was one of the inspirations for enlightenment now. I think a kind of wisdom aboutthe human condition that influence the writing of this book.
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