Summary of President's Lecture Series: Steven Pinker

In the President's Lecture Series at Carnegie Mellon University, Experimental Cognitive Psychologist and Harvard Professor Steven Pinker discusses various topics related to rationality, academia, and AI. Here are the main ideas, concepts, and lessons conveyed in the subtitles:

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36:18 — « Pinker argues that everything is improved linearly. No, forget linearly. Thats impossible. Not even monotonically, in the sense of good things always rising and never falling or vice versa for bad things. »
42:19 — « Even IQ has gone up in a process called the Flynn effect. »
52:46 — « Some people think it is, and that would mean that anyone questioning it would have to be squelched in order to achieve this concept of diversity, and there would be a tension. »
55:41 — « The First Amendment does not protect your right to blair political propaganda on a sound truck in a residential neighborhood at 3:00 am. »
60:02 — « Members of our community can engage in civil discourse and be able to express their opinions. »

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