Harvard Professor Explains The Rules of Writing — Steven Pinker

I'm here at Harvard in the office of Steven Pinker and he's written nine books and devoted his life to studying

language and cognition and writing. And so what we did in this interview is we started off with the really practical

stuff. We started off with his rules for writing. And what makes him unique is that he's been thinking about AI since

the 1980s. So if you're interested in doing great non-fiction writing in the age of LLMs, well, this interview is for

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