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Steven Pinker’s Half-Hearted Defense of Rationality

The Ayn Rand Institute Podcast

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If i were to have a private conversation with o, i would probably ana dig deeper in is his view of morality as sort of based on self interest. Cause he's trying to fit lots of different m theories into one package, and i don't see how they fit. A, it's over all evaluation sort hof comes out of the things i'm saying. It's got some good points, it's got some real big shortcomings. And a, it's not clear to me that the the good stuff is all that helpful in light of the shortcomings. Am like the best stuff in there i think, as is is elucidation of a probability theory which helps people think more rationally

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