A Rational Look at Irrationality: Steven Pinker

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STEVEN PINKER: When I taught a course and then wrote a book on rationality, I was confronted with a puzzle. On the one hand, our species can be proud of astonishing feats of rationality. We figured out how to get to the moon and take pictures of our home planet. We have plumbed the origins of the universe, the nature of life, the functioning of the... Read More