Conversations: with Steven Pinker, Professor of Psychology at Harvard University
John Anderson: Conversations
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The Importance of Balance in Social Media
We have to realize that there are lightest trade-offs and we've got to negotiate the best point along the trade-off. It's not clear how good our predecessors were at that, but there are a lot of mistakes made during World War II. We often muddle through society with lurch in one direction and then of course correct. Social media can certainly make things worse because there's so little quality control that anyone can say anything.
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