Comments by "Jim Luebke" (@jimluebke3869) on "Why Is the Feminine Represented as Chaos? | Q\u0026A 06-02-2021 | Jordan B. Peterson" video.

"The more complicated the cognitive activity, the better at it people who have high general cognitive ability are. Now, there isn't anything more complicated than reading other people." Yes, but there is an instinctive tendency present in most humans to preferentially observe human faces. This is measurable even in pre-verbal babies, as we can track eye movements to determine where their attention is directed. Most babies prefer to look at faces and human forms, as opposed to having their eyes attracted to other things -- motion, for example. Some babies' eyes are NOT attracted to faces in the same way. These babies can be predicted with significant accuracy to display symptoms on the autistic spectrum, later in life. Think about it -- if the data your eyes take in during your most formative years, is of facial expressions, you're going to have significantly more well-grounded intuition connecting facial expressions to basically every other stimulus you're taking in at the time. Even people with the most amazing cognitive abilities, are going to have a hard time replacing that well-educated intuition with conscious efforts, at the speed of conversation. I accept that "EQ" correlates with IQ in general, but I would bet that in people who can be demonstrated to lack the preference for looking at others' faces, the linkage is significantly weaker (although the trend would likely be the same, as their cognitive ability leaves them able to compensate somewhat). On the other hand, people who are not tied to a preference to observe the faces of others, are more free to observe other things. In some cases, this gives them an extraordinarily different baseline of observations and intuitions on non-human subjects, which can push them towards the tail end of distributions that serve them well at places like CalTech.
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@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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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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@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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"We don't know how feminine antisocial behaviors are going to manifest themselves in the political realm, but we'd be foolish to think they won't." Yup. Cancel Culture is toxic femininity, and it is a manifestation of The Matriarchy. I suspect we find few of these in history, because they are inherently less stable than "The Patriarchy". Everyone's sick of Cancel Culture already, and we're ready to topple it.
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Is Cancel Culture related to modern media? I would say yes, yes it is, insofar as it represents an effort to re-establish the walls of individual intellectual cloisters that are battered down by modern media's 24/7 ubiquity, and more than that, ubiquity in a single monolithic forums like Facebook and Twitter. There's something in nature doesn't like a wall, our Social Media Overlords would agree. But good walls make good neighbors. There's a reason that Dave's "Locals" is a good idea.
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Is Gaston really "all persona"? He's certainly full of himself, but the way he's presented, there is some actual talent and strength to back up at least some of that boastfulness. He goes straight from there into tyranny (zero communication or perception skills, that one) but his failure seems to be in his inability to negotiate or take honest criticism. Just wondering.
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