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How Common Knowledge Shapes the World, with Steven Pinker

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0:00STEVEN: Why do you shed tears? I suggest that  they are common knowledge generators. So when   you're laughing, you know you're laughing  because your breathing is interrupted. Oth0:42NEIL: How you doing, Gary? GARY: I'm good. NEIL: Chuckie, baby. CHUCK: That's right. NEIL: How you doing, man? CHUCK: I'm doing great. NEIL: So today, we're talking  about common k0:49GARY: Yes. NEIL: Common knowledge. But  why is that interesting? GARY: If we think about it, we humans have  evolved to be social creatures, and we rely

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How Common Knowledge Shapes the World, with Steven Pinker

StarTalk25 views
Steven Pinker explains that 'common knowledge'—the state where everyone knows that everyone else knows—is the invisible infrastructure of human society, enabling coordination in money, power, and relationships.summaryHe argues that non-verbal cues like eye contact and laughter serve as 'common knowledge generators' that convert private thoughts into public reality, while euphemisms and 'weasel words' allow people to maintain plausiblsummaryThe breakdown of shared common knowledge due to media silos and segregation is identified as a primary driver of modern societal polarization.summary

Steven Pinker in conversation with Michael Shermer at Live Talks Los Angeles

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Steven Pinker explains that 'common knowledge'—the infinite recursive awareness that everyone knows something—is the foundational mechanism for human coordination, social rituals, and political movements.summaryHe argues that much of social life relies on 'plausible deniability' to avoid generating common knowledge that would disrupt relationship norms, while modern challenges like social media and AI threaten to fragment sharesummaryCommon Knowledge Definition: Common knowledge is not just mutual awareness, but an infinite chain of 'I know that you know that I know.' This structure is necessary for coordination games (like driving on the same side otakeaway

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Tetragrammaton with Rick Rubin64 views
The concept of 'Negative Common Sense' describes the modern tendency to retreat to old, safe rules when anxiety rises due to change, whereas true common sense demands new actions in new environments.takeaway“Common sense is basically matching the newness of your action to the newness of the times. ... People behave the opposite of common sense when life [is] common sense. They have negative common sense. ... They take theirquote“Innovation's original meaning was sin. ... Innovation because it's actually going back for knowledge. ... The church for hundreds of years innovation was sin because it was defying the law by making your own rule for yoquote

How Common Sense Became Uncommon w/ Sarah Rogers | The Adam & Dr. Drew Show #2100

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The hosts argue that societal decay stems from a combination of government disinformation campaigns, the rise of Cluster B personality disorders in leadership, and the erosion of moral judgment and common sense.summaryNGO Grift Mechanism: Disinformation is laundered through NGOs with Orwellian names (e.g., 'Committee for Public Safety') that receive government or party funding, create fake knowledge (like flawed medical studies), and takeawayCommon Sense vs. Ideology: Common sense is characterized as inherently 'right-wing' because it aligns with observable reality and human nature, whereas radical ideologies require ignoring facts and human motivation.takeaway