Is life better than ever for the human race? | GZERO World with Ian Bremmer

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Was the Beatles' Paul McCartney right - is it getting better all the time? Ian Bremmer and Harvard psychologist Stephen Pinker discuss the state of human progress.
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Was the Beatles' Paul McCartney right - is it getting better all the time? On GZERO World, Ian Bremmer and Harvard psychologist Stephen Pinker talk about human progress and how we define it. Sure, it's great that we're not currently being chased by saber-toothed tigers. Life is better than death. Health is preferable to sickness. Freedom? We'll take it over tyranny any day of the week.
In short, we know life is better today than it was for most of our ancestors, but how do we measure that progress? And at what point does the technology that has improved our lives come back to bite us? We're looking at you, AI. Pinker shares his counterintuitive take on the state of the world. How does his optimism (as welcome as it might be) stack up against the undeniable sorry state of the world today? From war in Ukraine to a persistent pandemic to a resurgence of extreme global poverty, things feel...bad. And yet, Pinker remains relatively positive.
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24 сен 2023

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@danielm5161 9 месяцев назад

These interviews should be longer

@labcat647 4 дня назад

Commercial with George Washington popped up in the middle of the discussion on Americans being below par… but it looked like the same guy and I didn’t realize it was a commercial for the longest time and was so confused.

@KenOtwell 9 месяцев назад

Thanks! Great content. More metathinking, please.

@apothe6 9 месяцев назад

Great topic and video, Love Dr. Pinkers work

@SentimentalHogwash 9 месяцев назад

Sam Altman warning of extinction risk by his own product is not like your mechanic telling you your brakes may not work. It's more like your car manufacturer telling the dealership your breaks may not work, then pressuring them to either accept new terms or assume the risk themselves.

@oldsteamguy 6 месяцев назад

A great talk with 2 very knowledgeable people, only 214 likes in nearly 3 months?

@gr8bkset-524 9 месяцев назад

Life may be better than ever for the human race, but it comes at great expense to the natural world. The answer is a big NO if you're not humans or one of our plants or animals.

@jaxvoice718 9 месяцев назад

Overall, yes absolutely. But even here the picture is mixed. Many species have come back from brink of extinction, pollution has been curtailed and we've cleaned up our act. Europe used to be an open sewer and unhealthy place fifty years ago, with car centric developments, forests and lakes desolated by acid rain. Nature hasn't fully recovered, but it is recovering. Same story goes for Japan, Singapore, and more recently China (in part, they have just begun this process). Climate change is an other risk to stressed-out ecosystems, but the good news is that the means to end it, ending fossil fuels and destructive land use, also makes our lives better, cleaner and healthier, and gives nature some breathing room.

@davidpeppers551 5 месяцев назад

Poverty rates have been heavily manipulated. Can we really trust them?

@carlgranados7106 9 месяцев назад

Because things are "better" doesn't mean we can't go backwards and fast. Also I think things have been better for a large portion of the world other parts have gone backwards for the poor and poor countries which is why so many risk life and limb to try to immagrate to wealthy countries which is disrupting so many governments here and in Europe. Finally technology one one hand but at the same time made us lonelier, more isolated, and feeling powerless.

@georgeflitzer7160 8 месяцев назад

And Humane Tech get on board everybody!

@georgeflitzer7160 8 месяцев назад

Be for Net Neutrality and the Electronic Frontier foundation!!!

@psikeyhackr6914 9 месяцев назад

When do you tell everyone what they lose on the depreciation of durable consumer goods. What is the failure rate of washing machines?

@davidpeppers551 5 месяцев назад

Good question. My parents still have their first washer and dryer. Yes. It has worked for more than 50 years. Yet ours keep breaking. Plastic parts that used to be metal don't last as long. Theirs are worth fixing. Is it worth fixing a cheaply made less durable product that regularly breaks down? Our newest washer was bought brand new and has a 10 year warranty, but so? Will the company still exist in 10 years? Using their product means I signed away my tort rights. It goes to binding arbitration if there is a problem. It took all my pay from 50 hours of work to pay for it. How much was it for my parents??

@apertureonline9566 Месяц назад

This is very simply because of the difference in population and density, I mean are you referencing Greece? I think Steven Pinker is wring about a few things I've written documents on, like bringing economics to crime when the dollar has raised in value since forgery was made illegal by Reagan. This reminds me of the 1 in 4 women are assaulted on campus junk he didn't show any evidence, how am I drawing my own conclusion?

@georgeflitzer7160 8 месяцев назад

Chat GBT does lie!!!

@paulroberts7767 3 дня назад

Consensus... Hitler, Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot, etc... all managed to garner consensus.

@masonm600 9 месяцев назад

7:30 if globalization contributes to peace... what happens now that globalization is ending???

@jaxvoice718 9 месяцев назад

There is a significant opportunity cost, we will be less well off than we should have been, but globalization isn't ending, just not doing as well as it should.

@kshen7485 9 месяцев назад

@@jaxvoice718Globalization will continue benignly, but not according to western agenda.

@salvadorpuente8716 9 месяцев назад

Globalisation is not ending. It is simply going through some turbulence.

@danielm5161 9 месяцев назад

Globalization isn't ending. I play video games with people from all over the globe every day. Then I start doing business with them for various things. As long as we can talk to people across the world in seconds and travel/send cargo anywhere within a few days then globalization is here to stay.

@OCCUPYTVTO 8 месяцев назад

Sure is feeling like the world is in a better place now. 🤣 Stephen Pinker should stick to linguistics, or neuroscience, or whatever it is he does to sell books.

@kshen7485 9 месяцев назад

Nowadays best human improvement is that people finally realize the capitalism system is not solution, rather the problem. USA’s track records proved it.

@jaxvoice718 9 месяцев назад

All economic improvement comes from capitalism, even ostensibly communist countries like China and Vietnam. May not exactly be US style capitalism, but capitalism all the same. Capitalism alone does not ensure wellbeing however, it is just one of the tools we need.

@kshen7485 9 месяцев назад

@@jaxvoice718 No, most American nowadays achievements were done by strong government’s stimulations decades ago, instead of capital. Internet would be the best example.

@kshen7485 9 месяцев назад

@@jaxvoice718 Nowadays EV car tech is subsidized by all governments, instead of private business.

@jaxvoice718 9 месяцев назад

@@kshen7485 I could agree with you in as far that if you don't believe in good governance you will be at a disadvantage, and US should do better. It is not the country with better artists, soldiers, entrepreneurs or scientists who wins, but the country with better bureaucrats.

@kshen7485 9 месяцев назад

@@jaxvoice718 Now, except the bubble economy in your proud America, how could you compete with a “dictatorship” China? If it isn’t problematic, why do all your society and parties have so much worries and declare biochemical war, economic war and high tech war against this “hopeless” China?

@augustuslxiii 9 месяцев назад

That's nice about laundry, but more people killed themselves last year in the US than any year before it. You want to focus on a metric for the modern world? Let's talk mental health.