Podcasts that mention 📚 Blank Slate, the Noble Savage, and the Ghost In the Machine by Stephen Pinker

Stephen pinker's got this great book sense of style that where he unpacks this and it it is my entire Bible of writing

Johnny Harris mentions Steven Pinker's book 'Sense of Style' and calls it his 'entire Bible of writing' for its focus on active language and classic style.

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that would basically be like stephen pinker's blank slate

Sheldon Solomon refers to Stephen Pinker's book in the context of assumptions about human nature.

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and of course Stephen pinker's been another person who's written a lot about this and about the ways in which violence was much more a regular part of our Lives until the last few centuries

The host mentions Stephen Pinker and his work on the historical decline of violence, referencing a topic covered in one of his books.

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You ever see stepen Pinker book the blank slate Yes you know the the when uh the Anthropologist I can't remember their name

One of the speakers asks if the other has seen or read Steven Pinker's book The Blank Slate.

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well there's most certainly thinking if you you know study Stephen pinker's work this is the safest like most understanding least racist least violent least rapey time in human history If you go back and think of all the horrific crimes that have been committed since the beginning of time and you look at them on a scale even though we say oh there's so much chaos in the world today there's so much horror and that's absolutely true but there's less than there's ever been before it's better and you know they call Pinker an apologist for just talking about data but it's like very clear if you just look at the sheer numbers of murders the sheer numbers of all the horrific things that people have been known for forever there's less of them now than ever before

Joe mentions studying Stephen Pinker's work and describes his argument that violence has declined throughout human history.

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and dude there's a crazy there's a crazy book on this stephen pinker wrote this book called the better angels of our nature and what he does is he tracks over time kind of the nature of violence in humanity

The guest mentions a book by Stephen Pinker about the history of violence in humanity.

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and if you look at like say stephen pinker's work where he covers you know the history of uh human beings and interactions we are in the best time ever

Joe Rogan mentions Steven Pinker's work on the history of human interactions and violence decline, likely referring to 'The Better Angels of Our Nature'.

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so there's like that's like Stephen pinker's work if you follow his work on violence and crime people always want to think that violence and crime is more now than ever before but the reality is when you look at the course of human history it's there's never been a more uh safe time to be alive than right now

Joe Rogan references Stephen Pinker's work on the decline of violence and crime throughout human history, citing it as evidence that the present is the safest time to be alive.

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