The best podcasts featuring Steve Pinker

A new interview show with host Steve Levitt. Today he speaks with the Harvard psychologist and linguist Steven Pinker. By cataloging the steady march of human progress, the self-declared “polite Canadian” has managed to enrage people on opposite ends of the political spectrum. Levitt tries to understand why.

The full broadcast from Boston Public Radio from Friday, August 31st, 2018.

This week Boston Public Radio is revisiting some of our favorite conversations. In this episode you'll hear:

• We spoke with Harvard professors Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt about their new book, How Democracies Die.
• Michael Norton broke down the correlation between our appetite for risk and our appetite for ordering desert.
• Steve Coll discussed his new book, Directorate S: An Account of one of the great tragedies of our age – America’s failing policies in Afghanistan and Pakistan.
• Former Secretary of Labor Robert discussed his recipe for a just society. It’s the subject of his new book, The Common Good.
• Harvard linguist Steven pinker discussed his latest book, Enlightenment Now.
• Meredith Goldstein, the woman behind the Boston Globe’s advice columnist* Love Letters, joined us to talk about her new book, *Can’t Help Myself.

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Oleada de terminología técnica / El dinero en efectivo vuelve a peligrar / Facebook se niega a pagar / Vuelven los Hackintosh

🐙 GitHub y otros eliminarán los términos “master” con alternativas. GitHub cambiará “master” (dueño) por “main” en los repositorios por defecto al considerar que tiene connotaciones esclavistas que no tienen lugar en el siglo XXI.

💾 El sistema de archivos OpenZFS cambia “master” y “slave” como identificadores del funcionamiento de los discos, pasando a definirlos como principal y dependiente.

🏴 Google cambiará “blacklist” y “whitelist” como conceptos de permisos por “blocklist” (lista de bloqueados) y “allowlist” (lista de permitidos), aunque hay otros proyectos que abogan por “clearlist” (lista de permitidos, también). Dos términos más directos

📅 Todo comenzó en 2018 en Rails, el framework de Ruby, o al menos es la primera mención que encuentro.

🎩 Para los sombreros de hacker, también. Se proponen términos como “hacker ético” para “white hat”, o “hacker inmoral” para “black hat”.

Mi opinión: son solo palabras. El idioma evoluciona, y su significado se adapta con el paso del tiempo. Entiendo que para muchos el cambio no tenga sentido, piensen que haya problemas más importantes, y “dónde está el límite”. Pero si podemos tener términos más claros, todos ganamos. — ¿Tú qué opinas? Responde contándomelo.

Deberes para hoy: leer a Steve Pinker, el lingüista canadiense que describió este proceso hace 25 años. Lo llamó “la noria de los eufemismos”, en el cual vamos cambiando un término obsceno por otro más decoroso, que acaba convirtiéndose en insulto con el paso de los años, y vuelta a empezar. Llevamos así siglos y siglos. No es algo reciente.

💻 Vuelven los Hackintosh comerciales. Una empresa americana comienza a vender ordenadores con macOS y Windows. Los llama Velociraptor, cuestan 2.200 dólares, tienen un hardware excelente y seguramente Apple ya tenga la demanda preparada.

💳 El gobierno español quiere reducir el dinero metálico. Planea reducir los pagos máximos de 2.500 a 1.000 euros, igualando el límite presente en Francia o Portugal.

💶 En España sería ilegal prohibir el efectivo, porque rigen las normas y tratados de la Eurozona.

💸 Recordemos que Suecia busca eliminar el efectivo del día a día. Una decisión polémica de la que ya hablamos en Kernel.

📰 Facebook dice que no necesita a la prensa. La plataforma social dice que si el gobierno de Australia le obliga (como anunció el mes pasado) a pagar por incluir noticias, que las eliminará “sin que esto afecte a su negocio.”.

👉 ¿Qué suerte para los australianos, no? Poder entrar en Facebook y solo encontrarse...

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