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Steven Pinker

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01 / prediction

I don’t know if it was Aumann himself, it may have been, I think, Geanakoplos, who pointed out the corollary of Aumann’s theorem, which sounds totally counterintuitive, even crazy, is that rational agents should not engage in speculative trade.

“I don’t know if it was Aumann himself, it may have been, I think, Geanakoplos, who pointed out the corollary of Aumann’s theorem, which sounds totally counterintuitive, even crazy, is that rational agents should not engage in speculative trade.”
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Steven Pinker
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Conversations with Tyler

02 / prediction

The reason, of course, being that it would be considered an affront, a challenge to China’s sense of authority, prestige, standing, preeminence, because it stakes a claim to all of historic China, which, if it was explicitly breached by formally recognizing Taiwan, it would be a challenge to China’s authority.

“The reason, of course, being that it would be considered an affront, a challenge to China’s sense of authority, prestige, standing, preeminence, because it stakes a claim to all of historic China, which, if it was explicitly breached by formally recognizing Taiwan, it would be a challenge to China’s authority.”
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Steven Pinker
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Conversations with Tyler

03 / prediction

” If there’s some point in the landscape that commends itself as something that is salient enough, obvious enough, recommends itself, like in Schelling’s example, he guessed that the couple would meet at the clock in the middle of Grand Central Station at noon, even if it wasn’t where they would have been separated, simply because if you have to pick some place, what place are you going to pick?

“” If there’s some point in the landscape that commends itself as something that is salient enough, obvious enough, recommends itself, like in Schelling’s example, he guessed that the couple would meet at the clock in the middle of Grand Central Station at noon, even if it wasn’t where they would have been separated, simply because if you have to pick some place, what place are you going to pick?”
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Steven Pinker
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Conversations with Tyler

05 / prediction

The philosophical problem of sentience or qualia or (sometimes called) the hard problem of consciousness I think might ultimately be a quirk of our own way of analyzing the world — that is, the mind reflecting on itself is naturally going to be puzzled by some aspects of itself.

“The philosophical problem of sentience or qualia or (sometimes called) the hard problem of consciousness I think might ultimately be a quirk of our own way of analyzing the world — that is, the mind reflecting on itself is naturally going to be puzzled by some aspects of itself.”
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Steven Pinker
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Conversations with Tyler
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