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Steven Pinker

Steven Pinker on Why Doom is not Inevitable

in Nexus Conference 2016: What Will Save the World?

I don’t think that anything will save the world in the sense of bringing Utopia to Earth. But I think the world could be improved, and that would be the version of the question that I’m very much interested in.

Steven Pinker on Genetically Re-engineering Human Nature

in Nexus Conference 2016: What Will Save the World?

There are many changes to our institutions and our norms and our ideas that can reduce or eliminate the risks of nuclear war without what I consider a rather quixotic attempt to change the course of human evolution.

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