Steven Pinker Discusses Rationality and Humanist Values
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The Power of Recursion
We are familiar on the scale of meters, like from centimeters and millimeters up to tens or to a kilometer or so. This is where we live our everyday life. But just in the past few decades, we've built a planetary information network,. created an incredibly effective vaccine to a pandemic. All of which are on scales vastly different. Can you get into a little bit more detail on how we were able to go from the centimeter to kilometer scale to the nanometer and millions of kilometers?
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