Jordan Peterson | Hierarchies, Inequality, BIG 5

Dr. Jordan Peterson is arguably one of the greatest synthesists of ancient spirituality with cutting edge science, uncovering the nature of reality. In this talk we discussed competence hierarchies, wealth inequality, psychometrics, maximizing human potential, and much more. Enjoy.

SHOW NOTES 📝
0:00 Welcome; lobster notice; positive comparison to Tony Robbins
1:25 "Competency hierarchy" discussion, also, "dominance hierarchy"; pure power is an unstable basis; chimpanzee and crustacean examples
9:08 Economic success and IQ; job performance and trait conscientiousness; both saying AND doing the thing
14:10 Hierarchy maintenance includes other hard-working people not in power; "more fat people than starving people"
17:25 Responsibility goes up as you go up the hierarchy; more on competence and its benefits
19:00 Oppression discussion, "wise king and tyrant"; Brothers Karamazov "Grand Inquisitor" story
24:15 Radical left despises competence; the definitive way to make an IQ test and Big 5 model; statistical correlations
28:35 The statistical reality of distributions; listening to the tails
30:26 Career choices by sex, things and/or people
32:28 "There are no right-wing conservatives in psychology; none."
34:36 Confusing theory with fact; more gender difference in occupations
38:15 "Success is disproportionately rewarded"; nonlinear-ness; Google and diversity discussion; "The Great Leveler" by Walter Scheidel mention; Gini coefficients ever-present throughout history
44:34 More on inequality and societal instability and status; "Monopoly", stacking up at zero
48:30 Tech as a resource multiplier; U.S. Armed Forces/83 IQ discussion
51:55 You can't train creativity; MBA screening process; overestimating training
53:50 Liberals and conservatives are BOTH wrong on work; everyone is not the same; "genetic lottery" in Silicon Valley
57:20 Working with cocaine addicts in personal practice; hope for the future
1:01:00 More on inequality, moral burdens, not-simple problems; "Scrooge McDuck money bin" idea; Bill Gates' polio and malaria initiatives mention
1:04:20 Putting money to societal problems; things parents should teach children; positivity across species; Jaak Panksepp research on rats for touch and play questions
1:11:30 More Panksepp, on iterative games, esp. dogs and rats; "emergent reciprocity" points to development of ethics
1:14:18 Universal ethics trading game "brief story"; winning the game vs. winning the set of games; ethics around the game
1:18:46 "Quick dive into science and God"; informed decision-making; Biopreparat story
1:24:01 Ethical direction of scientific query discussion; facts and/or/vs. values; the bomb
1:26:25 Intellectual Dark Web and conversations in society; Carl Rogers mention; "can't force someone to be better"; being intellectually honest is the most interesting
1:30:20 More on having real conversations; "meaningful engagement is the deepest of cognitive instincts"; life is suffering
1:34:00 State of flow is the primary religious experience; more on religious experiences
1:35:03 Simulation Q1: Are we in a computer simulation? "Is A, B?"
1:37:57 Acknowledgement/thanks for Dr. Peterson
1:38:47 Credits

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