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Life itself, health, sustenance, prosperity, peace, freedom, safety, knowledge, pleasure, happiness—all of these can be measured. If they have increased over time, that is progress. | Steven Pinker
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Life itself, health, sustenance, prosperity, peace, freedom, safety, knowledge, pleasure, happiness—all of these can be measured. If they have increased over time, that is progress. | Steven Pinker
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On the "greater fool" strategy and common knowledge. More on this in my new book: When Everyone Knows That Everyone Knows . . . Common Knowledge and the Mysteries of Money, Power, and Everyday Life: https://bit.ly/3FgucEQ "In ordinary investing, you buy a share of a company because the company sells something at a profit, and you hope to take a share of that profit. In speculative investing, you buy it not because of the profit of the company, but because you hope that you can unload the shares
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On the "greater fool" strategy and common knowledge. More on this in my new book: When Everyone Knows That Everyone Knows . . . Common Knowledge and the Mysteries of Money, Power, and Everyday Life: https://bit.ly/3FgucEQ "In ordinary investing, you buy a share of a company because the company sells something at a profit, and you hope to take a share of that profit. In speculative investing, you buy it not because of the profit of the company, but because you hope that you can unload the shares
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Below I explain the concept behind my new book: When Everyone Knows That Everyone Knows . . . Common Knowledge and the Mysteries of Money, Power, and Everyday Life https://bit.ly/3FgucEQ "I came to the topic of common knowledge, that is, everyone knowing that everyone knows that everyone knows something, through my interest in language. In language, most of what we say isn't exactly what we mean. People say things like, if you could pass the salt, that would be awesome. And that's not literally
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Below I explain the concept behind my new book: When Everyone Knows That Everyone Knows . . . Common Knowledge and the Mysteries of Money, Power, and Everyday Life https://bit.ly/3FgucEQ "I came to the topic of common knowledge, that is, everyone knowing that everyone knows that everyone knows something, through my interest in language. In language, most of what we say isn't exactly what we mean. People say things like, if you could pass the salt, that would be awesome. And that's not literally
10.9K viewsAug 25, 2025
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In language, most of what we say isn't exactly what we mean. People say things like, if you could pass the salt, that would be awesome. And that's not literally what they mean. They mean, give me the salt. | Steven Pinker
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In language, most of what we say isn't exactly what we mean. People say things like, if you could pass the salt, that would be awesome. And that's not literally what they mean. They mean, give me the salt. | Steven Pinker
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The French Revolution was a disaster: killed 2 million people, led to the rise of Napoleon--perhaps the world's first totalitarian fascist dictator, who began wars of conquest that killed an additional 4 million people, led to the restoration of slavery, to the restoration of the monarchy, and a delay of democracy in France by perhaps a century. Russian Revolution killed several million, led to the Russian Civil War--which killed another 9 million--led to the rise of Stalin, who killed 20 millio
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The French Revolution was a disaster: killed 2 million people, led to the rise of Napoleon--perhaps the world's first totalitarian fascist dictator, who began wars of conquest that killed an additional 4 million people, led to the restoration of slavery, to the restoration of the monarchy, and a delay of democracy in France by perhaps a century. Russian Revolution killed several million, led to the Russian Civil War--which killed another 9 million--led to the rise of Stalin, who killed 20 millio
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The Left Pole: that mythical spot from which all directions are right-wing. Clip from @TheAtlasSociety. | Steven Pinker
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The Left Pole: that mythical spot from which all directions are right-wing. Clip from @TheAtlasSociety. | Steven Pinker
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I explain why the accusation that Israel is committing genocide is blood libel. Me: The application of the word genocide to refer to tens of thousands of war deaths is, I mean, I think it is a kind of blood libel. It's trying to import the moral opprobrium that we associate with genocide to a designated enemy, in this case, Israel. I think because I alluded to my side bias, the sides in this case being the sides that a lot of hard left critical theory has defined, namely white oppressors against
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I explain why the accusation that Israel is committing genocide is blood libel. Me: The application of the word genocide to refer to tens of thousands of war deaths is, I mean, I think it is a kind of blood libel. It's trying to import the moral opprobrium that we associate with genocide to a designated enemy, in this case, Israel. I think because I alluded to my side bias, the sides in this case being the sides that a lot of hard left critical theory has defined, namely white oppressors against
142.9K viewsOct 13, 2025
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Yes, what's happening in the Monty Hall problem is not common knowledge, but it is knowledge about knowledge. To use a fancy term, recursive mentalizing, where mentalizing means getting into someone else's head, trying to figure out what they know. Recursive mentalizing is trying to get inside their head, and when they're trying to get inside your head, as you're trying to get inside their head at an item. So that's common knowledge. In the case of the Monty Hall problem, it's private knowledge,
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On Trump flouting norms and why this is a negative development: "[One of the] remarkable things about Donald Trump—and uniquely among American politicians—is that he has violated norms that have been in place, such as: you don’t boast, you don’t blatantly lie. I mean, all politicians lie because all human beings lie. But they lied under the cover of claiming to be honest. With Trump, it’s patent that he just doesn’t care about factual accuracy. He’ll say things that are in his interest and that
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Me: I try to look at data and trends rather than headlines, because headlines can give you a misleading picture of the state of the world. Something goes wrong every day — that’s guaranteed — and if you just look at something goes wrong and say, oh, things are getting worse, you might be forgetting all the things that went wrong in the past. Andrew Marr: And what we call the news is a long litany of all the things that are getting worse or going wrong. Me: Well, yes, it’s much easier for somethi
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I’m coming to Melbourne on 6 Feb 2026 to talk about reason, progress, and how ideas shape our future. Join me. | Steven Pinker
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Me: What the Trump administration is doing by this trolling—by this contempt for standards of evidence, truth, sound argument—is what many dictators have done. Namely, not so much lie, because people can see through lies. But just as Steve Bannon put it, flood the zone with—we're on the radio—so, flood the zone with feces; he didn’t use the word feces. That is, spread so much nonsense, some things that are true, some things that are false, that people just feel there’s no way to tell the differe
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Clip on common knowledge from the Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard | Steven Pinker
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"Censoring, Retraction, De-platforming. Notice the metaphor again. A platform is a position in which someone can generate common knowledge because everyone can see them. What you're trying to prevent is common knowledge because it is common knowledge that makes a norm a norm or if the norm is threatened it's what makes the norm no longer a norm." Clip on common knowledge, the topic of my new book, from an interview with Robert Contofalsky (@CR_Scholar) of R-Academy. -- When Everyone Knows That E
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On Putin's invasion of Ukraine: “This really was a stunning breach of the norm since 1945: that borders are grandfathered in; nation-states are immortal. The borders may be irrational; they may be all kinds of grounds for irredentist claims—‘Well, that patch of land on your side of the border really historically and morally ought to be on our side’—which could lead to endless wars. But good fences make good neighbors. There they are, and if you just say, ‘The borders are the borders,’ then you a
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Harvard Business Review - Why do people pour money into hype—like crypto or meme stocks? Speculative bubbles, crypto perhaps being one of the most recent examples, are cases where people think that other people will, in the future, will want to buy in. Some of that's called the greater fool theory of investing, that you invest because you think other people will invest because they think that still other people will invest. The thing is that, of course, bubbles could pop when the market starts t
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On laughter generating common knowledge: "Laughter is--like eye contact, like direct speech--generates common knowledge. When you're laughing, you know it, because your breathing is interrupted. People around you know it, because they can hear the laughter. It interrupts your speech, and so people who are listening to you know that you're laughing, and you know that you're laughing. So it's generally common knowledge of something. What is that common knowledge? It's generally common knowledge of
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Prof. Keating: What happens when that common knowledge is wrong, or even when technologies like artificial intelligence threaten us by hallucination? What happens to the very foundations of what we thought was secure? Me: The answer is we don't know. Track record in general of predicting the downstream consequences of technology are poor. Even the best superforecasters are at chance for cut-and-dry questions five years out, let alone open-ended questions like what will happen to society, let alo
1.9K viewsOct 4, 2025
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Me: I discuss in the book—it refers to the state where I know something, you know something, I know that you know it, you know that I know it, I know that you know that I know it, and so on ad infinitum. So it differs a bit from the conventional usage, which just refers to something that everyone knows. Here, everyone has to know that everyone knows. Times Radio Interviewer (Daniel Finkelstein @Dannythefink): Can I use this with reference to the interview that I did yesterday with my brother? My
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"By the way, notice another Lakoffian conceptual metaphor—"Out there." Meaning, I see it, you see it, while I’m seeing you see it—another metaphor for common knowledge." Clip on common knowledge, the topic of my new book, from an interview with Robert Contofalsky (@CR_Scholar) of R-Academy. -- When Everyone Knows That Everyone Knows . . .: Common Knowledge and the Mysteries of Money, Power, and Everyday Life: https://bit.ly/3SMQ11N | Steven Pinker
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Here I speak with David Eagleman on Inner Cosmos about common knowledge, the topic of my new book: When Everyone Knows That Everyone Knows . . .: Common Knowledge and the Mysteries of Money, Power, and Everyday Life. "The thing about innuendo is that it has to be calibrated so that it is recognized by a kind of willing recipient, but can be denied by an unwilling recipient. So it has to be calibrated in that zone, and there can be errors in either direction, where there’s an episode of Seinfeld
5.4K viewsSep 23, 2025
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Galen Druke interviewed me about common knowledge, the topic of my new book (link below): Me: What common knowledge does in informal interactions is it ratifies social relationships. So if two people are friends, if they’re lovers, if one of them is dominant and the other is subordinate—that is, one always gets it this way—these exist because each party knows the other one knows they exist. And they survive by being common knowledge. Sometimes we don’t want to destroy a relationship, and so we k
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"Salience is the more common way that we entertain common knowledge, generated by certain common knowledge generators like direct speech, but also laughter, I argue, tears, blushing. We have nonverbal common knowledge generators and eye contact. With eye contact, you're looking at the part of the person that's looking at the part of you that's looking at the part of them, ad infinitum. Eye contact is a very powerful signal. Eye contact makes something that was private knowledge, common knowledge
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Me: If you want to freeze society where it is, then cripple the research enterprise. Bill Whitaker (@BillWhitakerCBS) Is that whole idea being lost in the harsh rhetoric by the administration? Me: The attack on universities is a tragic blunder. For all the foibles of universities—and there are many; I’ve pointed them out. Universities' research makes life better, massively so. Why would you want to cripple it? It’s something that the United States does really, really well. | Steven Pinker
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I recount a joke from the old Soviet Union: a man handing out leaflets in Red Square. Of course, the KGB arrested him and bring him back to headquarters. Only they discover the leaflets are blank sheets of paper. They confront him: "What is the meaning of this?" He says, “What’s there to say? It’s so obvious.” So the point of the joke was, he was generating subversive common knowledge. That is, the citizens of the Soviet Union, they all knew that the regime was inefficient and cruel and oppressi
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Part 2 of my conversation on the Think Fast Talk Smart podcast. Full episode: https://fastersmarter.io/231-secret-signals-why-we-rarely-say-exactly-what-we-mean/ "The thing of swearing does is it elicits an involuntary emotional reaction. Your primitive part of your brain, maybe your amygdala, just gets pinged, usually with some, not just an offensive thought, excretion, feces, urine, cuckoldry, copulation, the disease, death, misfortune. Those are the subject matter of swearing across languages
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Here, I talk with David Eagleman about mobs and common knowledge. Full episode: https://eagleman.com/.../why-do-we-so-rarely-say-what-we.../ "No one is an island. We really want to be part of some group, some posse, some band of brothers, because, you know, we’re sitting ducks if we’re isolated. How do you know which group to join? You don’t want to be on the losing side. If you can find some sin that someone has committed, and you all jointly recognize that they are a sinner, they’ve broken som
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They got the same DNA. Genes are the same. Same mother, same father, same older siblings, same younger siblings, same number of books in the house, same number of TVs in the house, same teachers, same everything. So they should be absolutely indistinguishable. They should be, you know, clones. Well, if you know a pair of identical twins, you know they’re not indistinguishable. They have separate personalities. I know this intimately, having two identical twin uncles, Barry and Mark, who are more
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For @Quillette, my words on Donald Symons. | Steven Pinker
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Steven Pinker - Private knowledge vs. Common knowledge #armchairexpert #podcast
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"Often university administrations indulge students who think that it's a legitimate form of expression to occupy buildings and eject deans from their offices, to obstruct passageways, to invade classrooms chanting slogans over bullhorns. Even if you are a First Amendment advocate, there are legitimate restrictions on time, place, and manner of expression of speech. I'm fully in favor of public expression of opinions, but that doesn't mean that I want someone invading my bedroom chanting, you kno
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I’m coming to Sydney on 7 Feb 2026 to talk about reason, progress, and how ideas shape our future. Join me, Steven Pinker, for an evening of intellectually stimulating conversation. | Steven Pinker
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With John Tomasi of Heterodox Academy (@HdxAcademy on X), we discuss what's wrong with universities. | Steven Pinker
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Michael Shermer (@michaelshermer) and I discuss common knowledge and doublespeak about sex. Me: Probably the arena where we do the most shilly-shallying, doublespeak, is sex. The classic line was, “Do you want to come up and see my etchings?” I’ve been told that it’s now, “Do you want to come up for Netflix and chill?” I mean, those have become themselves clichés, which, of course, no longer work. But, you know, “Do you want to come up and see the view and see my photos?” Any grown woman knows w
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I explain why being honest all the time would be unbearable. More about this in my new book: When Everyone Knows That Everyone Knows...: Common Knowledge and the Mysteries of Money, Power, and Everyday Life. https://stevenpinker.com/publications/when-everyone-knows-everyone-knows-common-knowledge-and-mysteries-money-power-and | Steven Pinker
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What is a Joke? The Science with Steven Pinker
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Ideas that define our age. Conversations that challenge how we see the world. Join Steven Pinker, one of the world’s foremost thinkers, live at City Recital Hall, Sydney in February 2026. Tickets available at : https://au.thinkable.events/events/ | Steven Pinker
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I’ll be touring Brisbane on the 5th of February 2026 and hope to see you there. Tickets are now on sale. | Steven Pinker
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Steven Pinker (@sapinker) on X
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Steven Pinker Explains "Netflix and Chill"
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Why Steven Pinker is against all world revolutions
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Grade inflation at Harvard? Tyler challenges, Steven Pinker has the data | Conversations with Tyler
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Stephen Pinker on Hypocracy
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Common Knowledge & Revolutions Steven Pinker on Star Talk
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Steven Pinker on changing people's minds
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Steven Pinker Explains Eye Contact
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A Double Prank Went So Wrong! Aaahh!
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Steven Pinker Defining Common Knowledge
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Why #America is fat and unhappy - #Harvard #psychologist Steven Pinker
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I’m coming to Brisbane on 5 Feb 2026 to talk about reason, progress, and how ideas shape our future. Join me, Steven Pinker for an evening of intellectual conversation. | Steven Pinker
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"But what is a mental image? Not for the last time, I got caught up, when I was in graduate school, in a raging controversy called the imagery debate. And this was a debate over the format of mental imagery. Now, everyone reports the experience of a mental picture, and that’s the way we describe it in English. But, of course, there isn’t a real picture in the brain. It isn’t as if there’s a little man sitting in a theater who’s looking at a screen. The behaviorists were right about this. How do
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I’ll be touring Melbourne on the 6th of February 2026 and hope to see you there. Tickets are now on sale. | Steven Pinker
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Five months back, I told BBC Radio 4 (@BBCPM on X) why Harvard had no choice but to resist the Trump administration's demands. | Steven Pinker
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Why is it hard for nervous lovers to say goodbye on the phone? More on this can be found in my new book: When Everyone Knows That Everyone Knows . . . Common Knowledge and the Mysteries of Money, Power, and Everyday Life. Out soon: https://bit.ly/3FgucEQ | Steven Pinker
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Why do people pour money into hype—like crypto or meme stocks—even when it’s risky? Steven Pinker explains the psychology that makes markets chase fads. Listen to the full IdeaCast episode here: https://s.hbr.org/42fZ1ll | Harvard Business Review
13.7K viewsSep 30, 2025
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Steven Pinker: You're 35x Less Likely to Be Murdered Today #Shorts
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Aghori mata ne bola अभी तो हम और भी ज़हरीली बनगई #aghori #aghoribaba #aghorimata #viral
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Steven Pinker (@sapinker) on X
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I’m coming to Sydney on 7 Feb 2026 to talk about reason, progress, and how ideas shape our future. Join me, Steven Pinker, for an evening of intellectually stimulating conversation. | Steven Pinker
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I’m coming to Melbourne on 6 Feb 2026 to talk about reason, progress, and how ideas shape our future. Join me. | Steven Pinker
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