EPISODE · Mar 29, 2026 · 1H 9M
Steven Pinker – Genes, Parenting, and the Blank Slate
from Information Theory · host The Information Theory Podcast
Steven Pinker sits down for an interview about his seminal 2002 book, The Blank Slate. In this interview, we talk about grade inflation at Harvard, the role of tenure in promoting free speech and controversial ideas, the three laws of behavioral genetics and what they mean for parents, the surprising age at which language learning ability declines, and what ChatGPT tells us about how the human mind actually works.
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Steven Pinker sits down for an interview about his seminal 2002 book, The Blank Slate. In this interview, we talk about grade inflation at Harvard, the role of tenure in promoting free speech and controversial ideas, the three laws of behavioral genetics and what they mean for parents, the surprising age at which language learning ability declines, and what ChatGPT tells us about how the human mind actually works.
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