Status Updates From Enlightenment Now: The Case...

Preface: finally, someone's talking about how wisdom is being ignored in the past century and how that is making our lives worse.

By chapter 4: hmm, this guy is relatively stupid, doesn't understand much and thinks all the wrong things.

By chapter 9: ahha, he's an apologist for super rich and now the very positive review of Bill Gates for this book makes sense. I probably won't read the rest. But maybe I should

As I am reading Steven Pinker's book, I'd like to see how he understands the concept of progress. I find that progress is not a single thing that automatically equates to 'good' outcomes; advancements in technology can lead to rogue and unreliable A.I., and an overreliance on A.I. can affect jobs, for instance. Nor do I believe that humanity, pre-colonization, was inherently 'worse' and less-progressed.