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The Epstein “academics” were all running an h-index pumping citation ring — to sell narratives that would be lucrative for various industries and interests. Chomsky, Ito, Trivers, Pinker… they will all be forgotten, and the world will be better for it.

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I used to like some of Pinker’s ideas, but yeah. This whole article is just unprincipled garbage in 2026. Neuroscience caught up. Advocating Trivers’ now is nonsense. Interestingly many thinkers of that same era (e.g Krishnamurti, Bohm) were staring right at the modern neuroscience lens and explaining it pretty accurately in the same era Triver’s wrote his essays.

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