ClaimsSteven Pinker

“there may be another kind of history of ideas, sociology of ideas, in play, that has only recently come to light in some of the articles in the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal about the Berkeley so-called rationalist culture out of which these ideas emerged.”

Steven Pinker 7 October 2026 Steven Pinker on AI Doom and Consciousness (Conspicuous Cognition) archived copy

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there may be another kind of history of ideas, sociology of ideas, in play, that has only recently come to light in some of the articles in…

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