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Podcast: The Jordan Harbinger Show
Episode: 593: Steven Pinker | Why Rationality Seems Scarce
Description: Steven Pinker (@sapinker) is a psychology professor at Harvard, one of the world's leading authorities on language and the mind, and an author of several bestsellers. His latest is Rationality: What It Is, Why It Seems Scarce, Why It Matters.
What We Discuss with Steven Pinker:
Why, by most metrics, older generations are mistaken when they proclaim: "Things were better back in my day!"
Alternatives we might consider if Universal Basic Income can't sustainably solve the problem of housing and feeding a workforce increasingly unemployed by automation.
Why nostalgia is overrated, and how criticizing the present...