Comments by "Jim Luebke" (@jimluebke3869) on "Jordan B Peterson" channel.

  1. Of course. Her lies are winning.
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  2.  @franklyandrewjames  He let her lie, exaggerate, slander others, and otherwise go without challenge. It's very useful to get more information out of her. I hope he can get her to map out her accomplices.
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  3. "You can't just be normative and declare you must have children, people respond to the incentives in front of them" 1. Not all norms are uniformly "must". Not all have, or ought to have, the force of law. 2. Sometimes you have to awaken people to proper incentives -- I'm reasonably certain you'd agree that sometimes people are too aware of the incentives of booze or drugs, and not aware enough of the incentives of hard work.
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  4. "This tr*ns thing is just the revenge of the repressed, because we don't integrate puberty into any grand narrative" Yeah, most people don't expect to have children - and being in a family down through the generations is one of the most fundamental stories, sources of meaning and relationships, that humanity has.
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  5.  @aaronazagoth6373  The tricky part here is, most of the chattering classes (such as Ferguson here) have sympathies with the Authoritarian Bureaucrats. The argument (so far) is literally one-sided, because the people with the most time to sit around and argue (or are even paid to do so), are for the most part on the authoritarian side because they just love to have their ideas implemented. Now, this isn't the end of the world; there is some value to people sitting around thinking, publishing the results of that thinking, and people generally reading what they publish. I own some of Niall's books, myself. However, we're going to have to make it crystal clear to them that we, the people, WILL NOT TOLERATE their using state coercion to implement their ideas. Publish and we'll read, talk and we'll listen. Then WE will decide what to do. And if they don't like it, tough.
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  6. "They end up siding with the fundamentalist Christians" .... who turned out to be right all along? Funny, that.
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  7.  @definitelynotcole  You're in favor of sterility? Social Darwinism? Justifying thoroughly evil acts to make this world a utopia? By the way, there's more and more proof being discovered all the time for Exodus onwards. Let's see... you're not representing your side very well, here. Nah, I'd rather vote for someone who believed that every human being has fundamental dignity because we're all made in the image of God, than a moral relativist that believes in chopping up kids (or anyone, for that matter) for the sake of their passing delusions. Whatever the new Political Correctness is, it's a pretty vile substitute for the virtues we built our civilization on. We're much better turning back to what worked, and proceeding form there, writing off the last fifty years or so of social innovations as a tragic mistake.
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  8. Insofar as Terry Pratchett can be seen as the voice of the Establishment (and all the moreso as his mental health declined and with it the probability he was the one doing the writing), we can see that the Establishment really does believe that in "Ankh-Morpork", as long as everyone is trying to make a dollar everyone will get along.
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  9. "How long do you think about these tweets?" -- "About a second" They are highly intuitive. Re-integration of intuition (knowledge that takes into account unprocessed/unconscious observation as well as instinct and emotion) into the Great Conversation has been necessary ever since Enlightenment Rationalism banished it. We need human intuition to make a comeback, not just computer intuition (convolutional neural nets).
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  10. Re: American anthropology -- the Boston area has a different class structure than any other part of the country.
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  11. Someone sent a GoPro or cell phone camera up into the upper atmosphere, attached to a weather balloon. The people who did this avoided the problem of being undirected, by focusing the camera on a little Lego figure holding a Canadian flag. This gave the whole operation a whimsical charm that made it worth watching. https://www.csmonitor.com/Technology/Tech-Culture/2012/0130/Canadian-teens-send-Legonaut-into-space
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  12. "The economics of the State have broken down social relationships between grandparents and grandchildren, which has interrupted cultural transmission" Well, that, and our ultra-regimented school system. Only a lunatic could believe that stuffing hundreds of 13-year-olds into a relatively small area with relatively little adult supervision, would result in the most mature and well-educated 13-year-olds.
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  13. Are our subconscious drives essentially biological? I mean, not in the trivial sense that all neuroscience is biological. Are our subconscious drives all based on "base" biological urges (hunger thirst lust)? Is conscience, conscious or subconscious? Are intuitive leaps on highly abstract matters conscious? (No, practically by definition.)
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  14. "Students could submit complaints anonymously. Not confidentially, anonymously." In that case, how do you know they're students and not foreign political agitators?
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  15. How expensive are these "smart stoplights" to maintain, and what is their replacement cycle?
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  16. It's worth a thumbs-up on this video, just watching the genuine warmth in the greeting between these folks. We need more of that, these days.
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  17. "We knew who was vulnerable, the aged, and we needed to laser-focus on protecting them and let everyone else get back to normal" Look at Fauci's past record of service. Old people are not the only people whose immune systems aren't effective; sometimes that ineffectiveness can arise from deliberate personal choices. These people had influence and wished to remain anonymous. The only way they could protect themselves, was to imprison the rest of us.
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  18. Peterson: "Do you think we have any existential worries on the climate front?" Lindzen: "Not for the next five thousand years." Mic drop, 1:05:18
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  19. "In order to get the respect that they think they deserve, the mainstream media just can't get this many things wrong" Is this then a problem with reporters, or is this a problem with editors? It seems to me that what Tim Pool does on his YouTube channel is not so much reporting, as ripping reporters a new one for not doing their job well. If more of that happened behind the scenes (as opposed to the presumed political pressure that Tim has also decried) the news would be in a healthier place.
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  20. "I have only Jonathan's word that that is a drinking glass" Douglas, I'm afraid you have to give him more credit than that, these days. At least the sense-data you are viewing (unless you don't have video of them?) is consistent with Jonathan holding a drinking glass. There are people who will make claims contrary to observable evidence, these days, and they'll expect you to believe them, like they think they can impose the Asch Conformity Experiment on you.
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  21. @Erika Rouby I suspect that autistic traits have a variety of causes, and teasing those causes apart is one of the reasons making progress on autism is so difficult. Calling everything a "spectrum" seems to be just shrugging their shoulders and looking for ameliorative care, rather than getting specific about tying effects to causes. It's a shrug of the shoulders, which doesn't serve their patients well.
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  22. "Our chief physical pleasure" Easy access to "hyper-palatable" foods is an interesting cultural detour we've taken that has had a similar impact on our health and well-being as screens. It's too bad we're getting hit with both problems at once.
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  23. "We don't like the idea that religion is a shield people use against the fear of death" "Death, finitude, gives life meaning" Doesn't removing our fear of death (as good Christian faith should) also give us good Christian patience, to keep us from immanentizing the eschaton?
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  24. Trump is a fundamental threat to the Establishment, but not to minorities / America / freedom / whatever. Trump is the first champion of Liberty-minded Democracy, in the new Cold War between that position and Authoritarian Bureaucracy. The American establishment derives their power from the idea that Authoritarian Bureaucracy is legitimate. In that, they are the enemy of America, and of freedom more broadly.
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  25. The fact that Bill Clinton was impeached but not convicted set the stage for the problems that MeToo reacted to.
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  26. Marx's writings have been influential. Does that put them at the core of the Western Canon?
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  27. Do you still build the model and act out the model if you're in a habituated state? How about a "flow" state?
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  28. I disagree with the idea that Peterson should deceive other people as to his point of view, in the hopes that more people will listen to all he has to say. If you think that what he has to say could be couched in gentler language, then is it up to YOU to do so. (After all, you're the Moon, aren't you? You reflect the light of the sun, so that those in darkness can endure it without being burned.)
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  29. "Leftists argue that all social institutions are inherently corrupt and must be replaced" That's because the Left has been busily corrupting them just as fast as they could.
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  30. Still some life in that old man yet! Go Professor Go!
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  31. "You're willing to fight when the consequences of not fighting, is more fighting" More people should learn this simple truth.
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  32. "The Pill has allowed women to plan" ... And what that "planning" has led to, is extinction-level fertility rates. That means, both culture and evolution are going to change to push those rates back up again. We're going to see the rise of cultures that push monogamous faithful marriage simultaneous with a rejection of the Pill, and we're going to see cultures that allow the Pill selecting for women who have a non-subtle bad reaction to it.
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  33.  @danielr890  How can you predict future climate without accurate models? Accurate models are not even theoretically possible. The way they slice and dice the numbers, theses models aren't science, they're sausage.
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  34.  @RomanGolubev_A  We know that increase in CO2 increases heat retention, as the absorption spectrum of CO2 over Earth's blackbody curve ends up trapping some wavelengths. We also know (through a fairly simple calculation) that even if you burned every molecule of fossil fuel we know of on Earth, that would only trap enough heat to raise global temperatures hundredths of a degree, a couple tenths at most.
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  35. "Symbols, which are arbitrary, and practically related concepts" You can do something with AI called "unsupervised learning", where you don't tell the AI what categories or relations it's supposed to look for -- you just allow it to discover categories of related clusters of nodes (concepts, sensory input data) all on its own. The fact that this is even possible disproves the post-structuralists. Absolute structuralists aren't entirely right, but they're more right than the absolute post-structuralists.
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  36. Thank you for showing the flag on Thinkspot. I've thought it was a great idea, but needs something to help it get closer to a critical mass of participants. Your participation -- particularly, responding to the sort of content and comments you would like to see more of -- can really help it take off.
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  37. Where can we find the Conscientiousness Test, that was the dismal failure because no managers wanted to buy it? It seems like company founders in startups, might be interested in it.
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  38.  @117Industries  At one point the professor was talking about a "conscientiousness" test he tried to market to management, but as he mentioned, managers didn't like the test because they didn't score as high as they wanted to. I was wondering where that could be found.
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  39. "We have been seduced by the digital revolution, where things change every couple of years" That will slow down, now that Moore's Law ("the number of transistors you can fit on a chip doubles every 18 months") is no longer in force. In fact, it hasn't been for half a decade or so now, which is why your laptop now isn't significantly better than your last laptop.
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  40.  @johnowens5342  I'm working on a project whose data demands regularly go into the terabyte range. If better computers were available, we'd buy them. But, they're not, because computers really aren't getting a lot better -- at least, not nearly as fast as they used to. We may not have reached Peak Compute, but we've certainly leveled off.
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  41. "Why was antibody production in children the only goal of these tests?" You know, the more I hear, the more it looks like cui bono is answered by the description, "People who have no immune system but do not otherwise fit the at-risk profile". And they didn't care how many or how much other Americans had to suffer, so long as they could hold onto their sterile lives for just a little bit longer. It will be interesting to see what kind of information warfare they're going to pull, to distract people from this fact, and even more interesting to see what happens when the backlash starts.
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  42. "The religious narrative is that the planet is a helpless female facing a ra*acious humanity, and individuals are nothing but parasites on it" If a baby is never born, never leaves the womb, then there is a problem here. We need to extend beyond Earth. The greens would have us ab*rted, or at least st*angle ourselves in our cradle.
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  43. On empathy - The birth of my first child was not only new to me (and therefore alarming), but technically difficult, and it is only thanks to medical attention that he is alive today. The birth of my second was alarming because of my experience with the first, but it went comparatively smoothly. It was only during the birth of my third child that I calmed down a great deal. By then I had internalized, that even if things went terribly wrong, I was not going to be the one suffering the physical effects of that, and that was a good thing. This could be considered a "lack of empathy". However, the fact that this allowed me not to be at loose ends, and to perhaps be a source of calm in a situation where others were going through difficulty, made me more of an asset than I'd been in previous situations. Similarly, I found myself in a situation where one of my group of friends had betrayed the trust of other members of that group, because he was in a significantly worse position than he had ever let on. He hadn't screwed me over, so I was not personally wronged; this allowed me to be more empathetic and helpful to him, than any of the others could be. They were ready to abandon him to his difficult situation, and understandably so. Just as there is a thought that cancels thought, there is also empathy that cancels empathy. Whatever degree of empathy you have, can be put to good use. By the way, you're more likely to be useful at your uncle's funeral, if you're not falling apart yourself.
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  44. "Evolves on the scale of hours to days" Could it be that Young Earth and evolution aren't inconsistent? Doesn't "punctuated equilibrium" point this direction? All it would take is for one of our ideas about radioactive dating to be wrong.
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  45. "Sam Harris believes that our interpretation of the Biblical stories is arbitrary" The Catholic Church agrees with him on that one -- they believe you need to be guided by Church tradition, to arrive at the correct interpretation. Protestants, obviously, disagree. HOWEVER, you'll notice that while Protestant churches differ, they differ within a certain range. You can't interpret the Bible and get an anime club, or set of rules for football, or a scuba-diving manual -- which you could, if the words were entirely "arbitrary". A single-use randomized code cipher they are not.
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  46. "The center of that linguistic network of what we refer to as 'good' is God" Is Christianity the chicken or the egg, though? In Tom Holland's Dominion it seems he thinks it's the chicken. You know what else would be fun? Training several Large Language Models each on different languages, and compare the results.
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  47. That last part of 1984, right?
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  48. "For every problem, there's a solution that is simple, persuasive, and wrong" Secularism / atheism isn't all that persuasive -- two out of three ain't bad though.
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  49. "To be a scientist you have to pursue the truth above all else" No, to be a scientist you have to reject faith above all else. You can't be a scientist if you just go around believing in things. It's a radical skepticism, a Socratic knowing-you-know-nothing, which often leads you do something closer to the truth. However, "Science" has been so successful that even if your instrumentation is bad or insufficient, if your computer programs are trying to model something that can't be modeled, or if an unequivocal experiment simply isn't designable, "scientists" still claim to know "The Truth". Wir mussen wissen as Hilbert asserted, without evidence... only ignoramus et ignorabimus is still with us.
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  50. "You can see that you can't have the civilization you want without Christianity, so why don't you just believe?" One does not follow from the other. A better question would be, "Could you support the church for your own reasons, and encourage (or at least get out of the way of) those who DO believe and are trying to spread belief?" Even that would help, if what you want is your civilization to flourish. Keep an ear open for God as well, as you go. =)
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