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sharcerer on Dec 29, 2019 | parent | favorite | on: Ask HN: Best books you read in the past decade?

Nassim Nicholas Taleb thinks it's BS. There's been a lot of debate on Pinker's book.

https://www.vox.com/2015/5/21/8635369/pinker-taleb

SamPatt on Dec 29, 2019

Wrong Pinker book. Taleb took issue with Better Angels of Our Nature, which is Pinker's book about the decline of violence.

Enlightenment Now is different. Taleb might also have opposed that book (he likes to pick fights) but that's not what your link describes.

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