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Published · transcript-backedSteven Pinker: belief
2 Nov 2016 Conversations with Tyler Steven Pinker on Language, Reason, and the Future of Violence (Live at Mason)
“Most academics I think secretly watch TV as a guilty pleasure and then deny it. I’m the other way around.”
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- Steven Pinker
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- belief
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- 2 Nov 2016
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- Conversations with Tyler
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…It’s probably efficient. Most academics I think secretly watch TV as a guilty pleasure and then deny it. I’m the other way around. I don’t watch a whole lot of TV, and I feel like I ought to watch more. They’re starting to use irregular verbs again. [laughter] Let’s take bioengineering technologies, gene editing, CRISPR, and the like. Imagine a much more advanced version than what stands right before us. Imagine that parents could to some extent influence or design the children they would have, above and beyond eliminating a few particular diseases. Does that worry you, or does that get you excited that we’re going to have smarter, better people?…
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