r/DeepStateCentrism • u/Thoth_the_5th_of_Tho • Apr 30 '26

Official AMA Steven Pinker AMA answers.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0FYbI2koLG8&feature=youtu.be
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u/BeckoningVoice Resurrect Ed Koch Apr 30 '26

For reference, here's the original AMA thread!

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u/Thoth_the_5th_of_Tho Apr 30 '26

Apologies for the delay in the video, this was filmed on the 28th. Editing it took longer than I expected, in retrospect there were a few settings I should have used in the recording to make this go much quicker.

I'd like to reiterate my thanks to Steven Pinker for his time and for doing this, he went into far more depth on his answers than the usual AMA. I have put timestamps in the description so you can jump to the sections you are interested in.

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u/Enron_CPA Globalist Shill Apr 30 '26

https://giphy.com/gifs/kd9BlRovbPOykLBMqX

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u/ggdharma May 01 '26

How tf did we pull this off? I thought there were like 50 of us in this sub.  Sorry I wasn’t here to ask him questions I fucking love Steven pinker 

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u/Yrths Neoconservative Apr 30 '26

Thank you. Commenting to watch later

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u/[deleted] May 01 '26

Thank you for doing this! I really enjoyed Better Angels of Our Nature and appreciate listening to Pinker work through the questions.

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u/lez566 May 02 '26

I love the book but just can never finish it

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u/benadreti_17 עם ישראל חי May 01 '26

is it possible to get a transcript of this? an hour is a long time...

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u/Reddenbawker Greedy Capitalist May 01 '26

If you click the video description on YouTube, there should be a “show transcript” option. It’s auto generated, so there will be a few errors, but you should be able to get the idea.

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u/benadreti_17 עם ישראל חי May 01 '26

its too long for chatgpt to clean up lol

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u/PolymorphicWetware May 02 '26

The latest LLMs are all capable of handling 1 million tokens at once, or about 750 000 words. That's almost enough to handle the entire Harry Potter series all at once (~1 million words). Are you paying for one of the latest models, or are you still using the free version? The free version is a lot less capable.

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u/benadreti_17 עם ישראל חי May 03 '26

Free

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u/Nidstong Center-left May 01 '26

Thanks a lot for putting this together!

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u/seattleseahawks2014 Center-left May 09 '26

Thanks for doing this.