Steven Pinker (@sapinker)
@sapinker
Cognitive scientist at Harvard.
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Bombshell: Oliver Sacks (a humane man & a fine essayist) made up many of the details in his famous case studies, deluding neuroscientists, psychologists, & general readers for decades. The man who mistook his wife for a hat? The autistic twins who generated multi-digit prime numbers? The institutionalized, paralyzed man who tapped out allusions to Rilke? Made up to embellish the stories. Probably also: the aphasic patients who detected lies better than neurologically intact people, including Ronald Reagan's insincerity.
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Why haven’t governments responded better to dilemmas? It's because "people have stopped wanting good things to happen," says @tylercowen. Something to this: romance, heroism, gumption about tech & policy innovation are flagging among elites & populists.
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