Steven Pinker
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would be a good thing.
It would be transformative.
More truth, less vituperation.
Once again, science saves the day.
Thank you so much.
It's been a great pleasure.
Thank you.
Stephen Pinker's latest book.
Give me the title again.
When Everyone Knows That Everyone Knows, dot, dot, dot.
You got it.
There you go.
When the little boy said the emperor was naked, he wasn't telling them anything they didn't already know.
But he added to their knowledge nonetheless.
By blurting out what everyone could see within earshot of the others, he ensured that everyone else knew what they knew, that everyone knew that, and so on.
And that changed their relationship with the emperor, from obsequious deference to ridicule and scorn.
Hans Christian Andersen's immortal story draws on a momentous logical distinction.
With private knowledge, I know something, and you know it.
With common knowledge, I know that fact,