Steven Pinker
Cognitive scientist at Harvard.
When Everyone Knows That Everyone Knows...: https://bit.ly/3ZuTEND
Steven Pinker explica como os seres humanos não procuram naturalmente a verdade, por isso precisamos de instituições que ajudem a controlar esse impulso. Esse é um dos grandes desafios de hoje com as redes sociais.

Há conversas que queria ter no 45 Graus desde o início, nos idos de (finais de) 2017. Esta era uma delas.
O meu convidado desta semana é Steven Pinker, um dos autores cujas ideias mais influenciaram o meu pensamento.
Falámos sobre o seu novo livro, “When Everyone Knows that Everyone Knows”..., e sobre uma ideia fascinante: o “conhecimento comum”, uma ideia que ajuda a explicar desde o funcionamento do dinheiro até à estabilidade das instituições políticas.
Mas a conversa foi muito além disso.
Falámos do impacto das redes sociais na fragmentação do espaço público e da erosão de referências comuns; de como sociedades conseguem (ou deixam de conseguir) coordenar-se; e do desafio de preservar padrões de verdade num ambiente mediático cada vez mais caótico.
E claro, falámos também de Inteligência Artificial: do que os modelos generativos nos dizem sobre a mente humana, das suas limitações, dos riscos de “cognitive offloading” e de como usar IA sem abdicar do pensamento crítico.
Uma conversa mais curta do que é habitual no 45 Graus, mas bem densa e cheia de ideias. Espero que gostem tanto de a ouvir como eu gostei de a ter.
Stop panicking.🛑 The world is getting better. The data is unambiguous. And yet most of us refuse to believe it.
Steven Pinker explains why — and what it means for how you live your life.
I always leave a conversation with Steven optimistic about the world and our place in it. It’s not easy to swim against the current and see things for what they really are — but we’re all better for doing so.
Full episode live on YouTube now. Link in bio.
#philosophy #criticalthinking #rationality #stevenpinker #humanprogress

Congratulations to Dr. Dylan Tweed, who brilliantly defended his PhD dissertation “Collective Outrage as Deterrence”’ in the Department of Psychology at Harvard earlier today.

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