4 ms·So two soft scientists are fighting? Who cares?by omouse 17y agoSo two soft scientists are fighting? Who cares?epi0Bauqu 17y agoPinker is not a soft scientist.omouse 17y agoOh? What is he then? (I read evolutionary psychologist off his wikipedia bio)deleted 17y ago[deleted]ramanujan 17y agoRead his papers from the 80s -- they are highly technical linguistics manuscripts. Pinker knows Unix and uses emacs. Yes, really.kwantam 17y agoI took a class from him at MIT (9.00). He is a very, very smart person.epi0Bauqu 17y agoI took that too, which is also how I knew :)drp 17y agoGladwell is a journalist, not a scientist.