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Human Progress
41mins
“Progress happens when we choose to make it happen. It happens through choice and effort. And ultimately, to make progress happen, we have to believe in it.”
13mins
“People got skeptical, fearful, doubtful of the very idea of progress in the 20th century and we allowed that to slow down progress itself.”
1hr 19mins
Steven Pinker explains how to cultivate greater rationality in today's complex world.
4mins
Everyone commits this rationality error.
5mins
“There’s a sense of crisis today that we did not have in the 1980’s or 90’s” — economist Tyler Cowen on progress in America.
John Templeton Foundation
7mins
Is it better to be rational or optimistic? Steven Pinker explains.
3mins
Climate change. War. Civil unrest. Is it responsible to have kids today?
8mins
The futurist behind Minority Report explains 3 steps for predicting what comes next.