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24 Sept 2025 Conversations with Tyler Steven Pinker on Coordination, Common Knowledge, and the Retreat of Liberal Enlightenment
“I would say North by Northwest, while a fine film, is really considerably below Rear Window and Vertigo.”
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…Yes. I ought to. If I had the same constitutional makeup as you, then perhaps. This is a case where the epistemic peers don’t share priors. I don’t know if you could talk about the prior probability of a preference, but when it comes to just the brute force gut feeling, look, I just don’t like chocolate, that would be a case where it isn’t irrational to not share those priors. That’s the way I’m wired, and I just don’t like it. I don’t like most ballet, but I admit I ought to. I just don’t have the time to learn enough to appreciate it. Take Alfred Hitchcock. I would say North by Northwest, while a fine film, is really considerably below Rear Window and Vertigo. Will you agree with me on that? I don’t agree with you on that.…
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