Pinker hasn't really had a field for some time now. IMO, this poster is basically correct though the mode of exposition is not very HN approved.

I think he's a bit of a prick too.. but seriously, this isn't how HN works. If you're not a linguist or in stats then the critique is at best third hand, and basically common knowledge sour grapes. (All of the ego scientist stuff makes me mad, but I try to keep away from that)

You don't need to be in his field to notice he is an associate of Jeffrey Epstein.

Guilt by association is really toxic. Please don't open this door. Epstein had a little black book with thousands of names and you're basically starting "the crucible" because you want to win an argument.

I don't like Pinker as a public intellectual and not because of the company he kept, because of how sloppy he is with numbers, and an extremely argumentative egotistical posture. Some of his ideas are interesting.

If you're going to start bone pointing to evil, do it somewhere else.