my billionaire friends smoking in an alleyway with leather jackets and slicked back hair trying to peer pressure me into doing pedophile sex

Just once I'd like a popular N.American public intellectual to not be a grifter.

For those who don't know, Pinker is a 'techno-optimist' which means that he believes that iphones and AI are going to solve all the problems of neoliberalism.

If you've ever heard the argument "but poverty worldwide is down and we're living in an unprecedented era of peace", it's this fucking guy.

The whole "TED" circuit is just Shark-Tank for academics. Only instead of good business ideas, they're competing to reassure rich liberals that they're good people and the status quo is moral and right.

Emil Kirkegaard

Drink!

"Shocker", yeah right. Least surprising appearance ever.

New rule: you're not allowed to tell people to shut up and look at the numbers unless you're actually good at math.

Fork found in kitchen

Didn’t know of his existence, but now I know to avoid.

and so it begins

Had people concern trolling about this guy repeatedly on Reddit. It's like bro he was on the Human Biodiversity Institute mailing list and all but brags about race science at Harvard in his trump-fluffing NYT piece.