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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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