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19056596 No.19056596 [Reply] [Original]

You may not like him, but deep down you know he's right.

>> No.19056651

Right about what?

>> No.19056662

>>19056651
Hanging out with Epstein and slaying some teen pussy

>> No.19056734

Refuted by Taleb. Also he's a buddy of Epstein.

>> No.19056821

>>19056596
https://youtu.be/beCAQafATPg

>> No.19057383

>>19056596
ass

>> No.19057464

>>19056596
History isn't over and progress will not continue arbitrarily forever. The world is Ass.

>> No.19057473

>>19056596
>here are metrics that literally don't matter at all
>see things are better than ever!

>> No.19057502

>>19057473
>metrics that literally don't matter
How many furlongs to the pound inches?

>> No.19057527
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19057527

>>19057473
Cope but don't seethe because things are going to get much better than this.

>> No.19057573

>>19057527
>Wow look civilization is marginally solving all the problems it has cause

>> No.19057593

>>19057527
thanks for proving my point

>> No.19057595

>>19056662
>>19056734
Yes and?

>> No.19057603

>>19056596
don't make me post the picture

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>>19056734
>taleb
butthurt little fame hungry arab cunt that wrote one good book and now sees himself as expert on everything. Twitter addicted trash - basically a teenaged girl mentally and morally

>epstein
dont care

Pinker is legit. The only reason /lit/ might hate writer or scientist X is if X is a popular one. The armchair philosophers here never accounted anything in their lives, and seethe how someone is gaining some fame or success somewhere, thinking on some """Ironic""" level they are really that smart but "my life hasn't started yet".

kys

>> No.19057989

>>19057573
>all the problems it has cause
You can't be this retarded can you? Civilization caused illiteracy and poverty I guess right? Retard.

>> No.19057998

>>19057989
Illiteracy is irrelevant in oral tradition. Poverty is irrelevant when there is a functioning environment that provides everything that is needed. Civilization destroyed both

>> No.19058091

>>19056596
The biggest issue with the theory that violence has declined is lack of archaeological record. It's not like there were statistics on how many people experienced death by violence deep from the past.

>> No.19058110

I may not like him?

>> No.19058171

>>19056596
unironically refuted by Rene Guenon

>> No.19058182

>>19056596
I thought I saw him in San Antonio at an Indian restaurant. I was going to tell him his books are horrendous but I'm pretty sure it was just some old guy; then again there was some 5-year-old wearing a flat cap? with him, in Texas of all places!—it may well have been him.

>> No.19058217

>>19057527
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N_njJHwFa4s&t=1242s
apologies for borrowing somebody else's rebuke to the book but I remember Academic Agent's being pretty good. doesn't really sink Pinker's points per se but does cast doubt and shows that he was very selective (perhaps rising to the level of deceitfulness, as AA shows at least some of the info pinker must have encountered yet nary a mention of countervailing data) on what data he based his sweeping generalizations he made.

>> No.19058870

>>19057989
Considering it created wealth and literacy, yes

>> No.19058907

>>19057948
>butthurt little fame hungry arab cunt that wrote one good book and now sees himself as expert on everything. Twitter addicted trash - basically a teenaged girl mentally and morally
ad hominem
his criticism of pinker had substance unlike your criticism of him

>> No.19058949

>>19057527
Show the depression graph

>> No.19058988

>>19057527
I think Pinker overstates the optimistic view of progress. Thomas Piketty lays out a pretty devastating case that we are exiting the only period in human history where an individual could amass wealth through their own labor and skill and are rapidly returning to a money landscape entirely dominated by inherited wealth and income from already amassed capital.