I don't know if Pinker attributes this (or if he independently came up with the observation), but the quote relates to Moravec's Paradox https://en.wikipedia.o

I don't know if Pinker attributes this (or if he independently came up with the observation), but the quote relates to Moravec's Paradox https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moravec%27s_paradox https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moravec%27s_paradox