Comments by "Peter Lund" (@peterfireflylund) on "Dwarkesh Patel" channel.

  1. They commercialized it very well for a while.
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  2. There isn’t much useful/scientific stuff going on in psychology outside of psychometry — and that’s mostly about intelligence (inherited, men are smarter, different races have different averages, the environment doesn’t matter much). It’s perfectly possible to do good psychometric research outside of academia (and you are pretty much forced to do it outside of the academic mainstream). Maybe get a different (better) degree and do psychometric research in your spare time as a “gentleman scientist”?
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  3. All the soft and wet fields could use people who can do math.
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  4. Oh, and read Gleitman’s book on psychology (NOT any of the abbreviated versions!). That will teach you more than most people with a psychology degree know — and leave you unburdened of most of the field’s “knowledge” ;)
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