![]() ![]() I’m proud to be thanked in the preface-well, as “Scott Aronson.” I have a lot of praise for the book, but let’s start with this: the omission of the second “a” from my surname was the worst factual error that I found. I met with Steve while he was writing this book, and fielded his probing questions about the relationships among the concepts of information, entropy, randomness, Kolmogorov complexity, and coarse graining, in a way that might have affected a few paragraphs in Chapter 2. ![]() ![]() That’s what happened when, on a trip back to Austin from my sabbatical, I found a review copy of Steven Pinker’s Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress. It’s not every day that I check my office mailbox and, amid the junk brochures, find 500 pages on the biggest questions facing civilization- all of them, basically-by possibly the single person on earth most qualified to tackle those questions. ![]()
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