Steven Pinker ✓
@sapinker · Boston, MA · joined 21 Jan 2010
Cognitive scientist at Harvard.
860 792Followers
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17 007Posts total
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Top 18 Quotes about Evolutionary Psychology https://t.co/eiPKBa3xtU
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Should Internet slang be in the dictionary? When in the early 1960s Webster's Third International listed "ain't," commentators were enraged, not realizing that dictionaries record, rather than approving, usage, and that nonstandard and slang forms are always flagged as such. When
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Why John Coltrane still matters — Harvard Gazette https://t.co/SYZfbqPNgX
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On International Peace Day: How Ideas Beyond Borders Helps Build the Conditions for Peace https://t.co/EIbjphJ5YJ
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“Something there is that doesn’t love a wall”: Poetry in America’s guide to democracy and disagreement. Robert Frost Explains the Midterms to You, by my colleague (and host of the PBS series Poetry in America) Elisa New. https://t.co/1c8KKamdo5
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How therapy culture made us neurotic and quarrelsome. (Three insights on human nature from the late Robert Trivers are germane: Even the most intimate of human relationships have deep conflicts of interest (resolving them once and for all is impossible); people are self-deceived
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My obituary for Trivers, published earlier this year. https://t.co/yd5VAWWz0r
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Excellent conversation here: Jerry Kaplan on Why AI Won’t Kill Us All (with @Yascha_Mounk). https://t.co/GdGAq23W82
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Good summary of current research conclusions on Sex Differences in Cognitive Abilities by Steve Stewart-Williams @SteveStuWill https://t.co/HkrcHCJKWW
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Today at Harvard: What Makes a University Free? A Conversation with the world's expert on the history of free speech, Jacob Mchangama, and Harvard Law Professor Randall Kennedy https://t.co/qSzqdQZYWa
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Congratulations, Eric! And STAT @statnews , for nurturing this talent.
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Some good sense on psychotherapy: https://t.co/QNNO4lvghL
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Some news, as they say. After 11 years of working with the amazing folks @statnews, I’m joining the @nytimes as national science correspondent.
I’ll miss the STAT crew—some of my favorite journalists and people—and am excited to tell stories about all kinds of science.
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Join me and Ali Rizvi tomorrow in Toronto:
An Evening with Steven Pinker - Toronto
Tuesday, September 15, 2026
Doors 6:00 PM · Show 7:00 PM
Tickets: https://t.co/rWtUZqc2Qu
@thinkableevents https://t.co/HyrH2WqjRk
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Excellent essay by Melanie Mitchell @MelMitchell1 on what exactly happened in the "rogue AI" story and how to think about AI safety | Misleading Metaphors and Real Risks https://t.co/BgnJ53jrmR
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At Harvard and Northeastern, different approaches to speech — with different results. Since the Council on Academic Freedom at Harvard @cafh was founded, we have been part of the move by students, professors, and leaders to improve the climate and rules around speech on campus.
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Daycare pseudoscience: No evidence that it makes much of a difference compared to stay-at-home parenting, and advocates & enemies do the country a disservice by terrifying parents that they may make the wrong choice. Judith Rich Harris made this point 28 years ago: That was the
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"Ads Don’t Work That Way" - this piece by Kevin Simler appeared in the print edition of Works in Progress magazine. It reiterates an argument from Michael Chwe that I explained in When Everyone Knows That Everyone Knows...: Many ads work by generating common knowledge of some
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...an idea developed by the linguist, poet, and musician Jay Keyser in his book The Mental Life of Modernism: Why Poetry, Painting, and Music Changed at the Turn of the 20th Century. https://t.co/ic8uZ25u6Y
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Do people prefer traditional architecture? Betteridge's Laws of Headlines doesn't apply: The answer is yes. I offered one explanation for the proliferation of architecture that people hate in The Blank Slate: In the 20th century, elites came to believe that the human sense of
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Worth watching: "It is not a genocide; it is a counterattack in a war."
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This should be pushed far and wide. Watched in every college class in the U.S. Thank you @billmaher The moral confusion is gross. "It is not a genocide, it is a counterattack in a war...Gaza equals genocide is a lie, an easily provable lie (as I have argued from first hand https:
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Fascinating findings from my colleague Erin Hecht & her students on how selection (artificial) shaped brains (dogs') for verbal communication. | How a little nurture, a little nature shaped your dog’s brain | Harvard FAS https://t.co/LYiuySq54U)
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Have to agree with Maarten Boudry @mboudry and Helen Pluckrose @HPluckrose here ...
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Last Man Standing: Matt Johnson @mattjj89 reviews Francis Fukuyama's new memoir. Good to rescue FF from the silly misunderstanding the "the end of history" means that nothing happens any more. https://t.co/J90b7dVnkW
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One generalization from The Better Angels of Our Nature is that terrorist movements virtually never attain their political goals. 25 years after 9/11, this remains true of Al Qaeda - Graeme Wood in The Atlantic: https://t.co/TQNh6GeLrP
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As Newport points out, harping on doom for the species changes the subject from immediate and obvious threats from AI, such as enabling bioterrorism, undermining truth-seeking institutions, and breaching cybersecurity.
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"If Ford automobiles were spontaneously catching on fire, we wouldn’t tolerate the chief executive’s changing the subject to discuss our general lack of preparedness for a future with flying cars. We’d demand that the company address the acute problem happening right now."
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Why are the leaders of AI companies saying "Our products are going to extinguish humanity. Invest in us!" They come from an eccentric Berkeley subculture in which this eschatology is a sacred belief. Good analysis in a NYT op-ed by Cal Newport. https://t.co/GrLO6eNgCF
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This is why I never fully fit in with the "Rationality" and "Effective Altruism" movements despite my strong commitment to rationality and effective altruism: both drifted from their defining missions to fretting about AI turning us into paperclips (a notion I dismissed in
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Dibandingkan akun berukuran sama
35 postingan dari 90 hari terakhir, dibandingkan dengan rentang 100K–1M pengikut. tampil luas, tetapi sedikit penonton yang merespons.
Median tayangan27 729akun ini5 983median untuk 100K–1M
Jangkauan, %3.22%akun ini1.49%median untuk 100K–1M
Interaksi, %0.46%akun ini0.93%median untuk 100K–1M
| Metrik | Akun ini | Median untuk 100K–1M | Rasio |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median tayangan per postingan | 27 729 | 5 983 | 4.63× |
| Jangkauan (tayangan ÷ pengikut) | 3.22% | 1.49% | 2.16× |
| Tingkat interaksi | 0.46% | 0.93% | 0.49× |
Akun lain pada rentang ini → Bandingkan dengan akun lain → Bagaimana tolok ukur ini disusun →
Growth & engagement
How the posts we collected actually performed: views and reaction rate post by post, what the audience did with them, and where the follower count goes.
Views per post
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Last 14 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.
Engagement rate per post
0.15%14 Sep
0.64%15 Sep
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0.57%20 Sep
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Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 100K–1M accounts is 0.93%.
What the audience does
Likes68.5%22 959 in total
Reposts14.3%4 799 in total
Replies1.0%342 in total
Quotes0.4%128 in total
Bookmarks15.8%5 284 in total
Share of every reaction we collected for this account. Replies mean argument, reposts mean endorsement, bookmarks mean the post was worth keeping.
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Daily snapshots since 23 Sep 2026; the dashed line is the starting count.
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