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Taleb doesn't take himself seriously, Pinker takes himself far too seriously. Taleb is entertaining, Pinker draws out his ideas to the point of tedium. Taleb
by CuriouslyC 10y ago
Taleb doesn't take himself seriously, Pinker takes himself far too seriously. Taleb is entertaining, Pinker draws out his ideas to the point of tedium. Taleb is a skeptical empiricist, Pinker likes to get lost in theory.
Pinker certainly has Taleb lapped in terms of old guard intellectual credentials. Whether that is a good thing is debatable.
- jordanb 10y agoPinker isn't taken very seriously by historians: https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/1tuivk/steven_pinkers_reputation_in_historical_circles/ https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/1tuivk/steve...