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Steven Pinker flew on the Lolita Express Back in 2002, long before the statutory rape findings were widely known -- if the were known at all beyond a select ci
by akhmatova 4y ago
Steven Pinker flew on the Lolita Express
Back in 2002, long before the statutory rape findings were widely known -- if the were known at all beyond a select circle, which this (given the voluminous roster of LE ridership) by itself does not prove that Pinker was a part of.
aided in Epstein's 2007 legal defense.
Apparently unknowingly. Again, unless you have information that would indicate otherwise.
- adultSwim 4y agoWho did he think the girls on the plane were?
- PaulHoule 4y agoI see what he wrote for Dershowitz as just as sophomoric as what he said in his own defense later and the books he writes. For me it comes together in a gestalt. I have a lot of reasons to suspect connections between language and cognition, not least of which is experience with animals and birds which have definite and divergent mental models w/o language. (A female cardinal and a red-breasted grosbeak come to my window. The cardinal believes its reflection is another bird and attacks it for hours unless I am in the room in which case it flies away. The grosbeak catches the eye of its reflection and catches my eye and doesn’t mind even if I am close to the window because it understands the situation.) Any kind of taking language too seriously winds you up in intellectual wastelands like structuralism and post-structuralism. Pinker’s theme of “it’s getting better all the time” compares unfavorably to Simon, Petroski and similar writers in the 1970s who were up against Watergate, Patricia Hearst, Disco, etc… If he took responsibility for something I could forgive him but as it is he’s the #1 public intellectual that makes me want to believe in the Lizardman theory.