Harvard Gazette reviews Stephen Pinker’s new book on rationality. Pinker argues that hunter-gatherer tribes use critical thinking all the time, are skeptical of arguments from authority, and “owe their survival to a scientific mindset”.

platonic1 · 2021-10-20T06:45:52+00:00

So they’re wiser than modern people?

AmericanMuskrat · 2021-10-19T21:53:52+00:00

I remember when he lied to the UN, watched it live. I wondered what the hell they had on him to make him sacrifice his career like that. It was probably even more horrific shit he did.

Popper · 2021-10-19T17:17:27+00:00

always thought that was weird when I saw it as a kid, old guy is an asshole to a young woman but she wants him anyway. Red pill explained it to me later.

Hel · 2021-10-19T13:01:00+00:00

As Good As It Gets is the movie in case anyone was wondering

Popper · 2021-10-19T12:58:12+00:00

since I doubt colin even knew how to read or write, I wonder if the ghost writer here decided to be based, because why put stuff in colin's book that he denied in real life?

Chipit · 2021-10-19T06:47:52+00:00

It's not "stolen". It's from a Jack Nicholson movie. It's pretty well-known.

It's called a headline, not an academic citation.

jet199 · 2021-10-19T06:25:43+00:00

That's actually a quote stolen from someone else.

Algebruh · 2021-10-17T11:42:22+00:00

This seems interesting

fschmidt · 2021-10-07T20:58:29+00:00

His favorite author is Dostoevsky. Yuck. That explains a lot about what is wrong with Peterson.

Popper · 2021-10-07T20:21:58+00:00

cant say i have

brutal bear pill

RuckusChan · 2021-10-07T20:16:02+00:00

Anyone read the book based on the trash meme called....What the actual fuck Canada? https://imgur.com/gallery/uf3YE 'Engel'??

JasonCarswell · 2021-10-07T19:25:36+00:00

Indeed.

But I still have great affection for it and fond memories of introducing it to many folks over the decades, starting from my youth, when I was naive, cheesy, and trite.

I also think it's good to share with folks who aren't deep into understanding the levers of power and corruption, potentially laying a foundational language to reference and build upon. We all need to start somewhere.

Popper · 2021-10-07T19:10:25+00:00

erica jong

Popper · 2021-10-07T19:08:51+00:00

this was kind of cheesy and trite

Popper · 2021-10-07T19:07:15+00:00

pretty cool

IkeConn · 2021-09-29T03:26:09+00:00

Take those stupid ass video games away and throw them in the trash. Then make them go outside to play.

IkeConn · 2021-09-10T00:04:34+00:00

Tall smart handsome muscular blue eyed white alpha males are the envy of the planet. I know. I grew up that way. Got laid all my young life. Even black girls. Black girls are a lot like fat white girls. They try harder. I give teen fat white girls and teen black girls an A+ for sexual enthusiasm from back in the day.

cottoneyejoe · 2021-09-09T22:40:29+00:00

Theory: black animosity towards whites = genetic envy

IkeConn · 2021-09-02T02:51:53+00:00

Another white washed dick sucking gay pedo.

insta · 2021-08-17T00:21:14+00:00

You don't believe race is biological? Dude that's flat out science denial.

Chipit · 2021-08-16T06:09:37+00:00

Age is a biological reality. Race is not.

insta · 2021-08-16T05:35:57+00:00

Age profiling and race profiling really aren't as different as you want them to be. You just view one as more socially accepted than the other.

Chipit · 2021-08-16T04:45:49+00:00

"They are ignorant, unambitious, anti-social, uncurious, materialistic, narcissistic, and profoundly unhappy. Yet they are strangely proud of all this and expect their free, prosperous world to continue as it always has."

Hard times make strong men. Strong men make good times. Good times make weak men. Weak men make hard times.

Chipit · 2021-08-16T00:56:57+00:00

Age isn't the same as the racist stereotyping this book is engaging in.

insta · 2021-08-15T19:34:37+00:00

It's more akin to profiling than actual racism. Again, different people have different health needs.

You wouldn't ask a 20-something year old the same question in the same order as you would a 60-something year old. You just don't. It's a waste of time and your virtue signaling could lead to worse health outcomes for the patient. The same applies to different demographics as well.

Your virtue signaling in these scenarios could literally cost someone their life. If you come into the ER with chest pain and having shortness of breath you're more often than not experiencing an overdose, the same is not said about a 60-year old obese man. It's just stupid to operate in this world where everyone are individual actors completely unlike other people.

Basghetti · 2021-08-15T18:53:53+00:00

Filling out paperwork in the doctor's office is hell, but providers should have patients fill out optional paperwork that outlines a few things regarding their culture to refer to as they do their work up. That would clarify things instead of just going on assumptions. Stereotypes are a way to group people together, and it ends up being more harmful than not because Western societies are typically not only very individualistic, but there's been enough racial and cultural blending that it would be stupid to outright assume anything about someone based on appearance and basic information.

That said, there are still lab tests performed during pregnancy and other situations that do account for race/ethnicity/and even the countries that you've previously lived in due to different lab reference ranges and clinical evidence.

Chipit · 2021-08-15T18:31:37+00:00

"Blacks" is not a culture.

Stereotyping like this is not only racist and offensive, it's factually wrong. All blacks do this? And you can tell that they do just by comparing their skin to a brown paper bag?

What shamefully wrong, utterly unscientific drivel. Why don't you get out the calipers and start measuring their skulls, it's about as accurate.

Chipit · 2021-08-15T17:49:22+00:00

Wow, that first paragraph is racist, derogatory nonsense. Prove it with facts. But of course, you can't. Because it's stereotyping.

fschmidt · 2021-08-15T17:48:08+00:00

Not race, culture. Moronic modern scum can't even tell the difference between race and culture.

jet199 · 2021-08-15T17:42:51+00:00

If you give everyone the same treatment some groups will have significantly worse results.

People who really care about racism will try to work out why that is and improve understanding.

jet199 · 2021-08-15T17:41:07+00:00

You might not like it but one of the reasons black people have worse survival rates for cancer is that they go to church to pray the cancer away and put their heads in the sand over treatment.

What's the group with the lowest vaccine uptake at the moment?

Same problem.

If you can't talk about the problem you can't deal with it and then you get more bock people dying, which is really racist and actually matters a bit more than hurt feelings.

Of course it's not all black people, you know this. This stuff is from ethnographic research not, it's about cultural trends which are often not particularly flattering for any group.

Chipit · 2021-08-15T03:28:02+00:00

Oh, so open racism is widely accepted where you work. Aren't you a wonder.

FlippyKing · 2021-08-15T02:37:13+00:00

You know what? I stand corrected. I glanced at two of the items, and just figured I knew what the rest said because I'm familiar these sorts of things. There are certain cultural considerations with regard to prescriptions that seemed racist to me but it is about the tendency to eat certain food and for example a medicine that contains a bit of sodium was considered not best for some groups if an alternative is available. But that page is pretty ridiculous.

However, behind the racism what I see is something different. It is more about the idea that there is something "cultural" as in not enlightened about enduring pain. Maybe I'm reading into it too much. But after I see the racism, I see the book casting like side-eye at people who will endure pain rather than ask for drugs.

Tums_is_Smut_bkwrds · 2021-08-15T02:03:49+00:00

Racism is race realism, and what's wrong what that? Not a god damned fucking thing. So the next time someone calls you a racist just say Thank you and carry on with your day.

jet199 · 2021-08-14T12:14:36+00:00

LOL

Supreme.

JasonCarswell · 2021-08-13T20:05:58+00:00

LOL

Jews Cultural Differences in Response to Pain

Jews may be vocal and demanding of assistance.
They believe that pain must be shared and validated by others.

Seems odd that Whites aren't mentioned.

AntifaWearsDiapers · 2021-08-13T08:12:19+00:00

2+2=5

socks · 2021-08-08T20:37:42+00:00

poopdawg15 · 2021-08-07T14:51:41+00:00

The old green one with Epictetus also.

adultmanhwa · 2021-08-06T07:25:32+00:00

saved, thank you so much for your effort!

JasonCarswell · 2021-08-03T14:55:31+00:00

Worth compiling into a .zip.

Brewdabier · 2021-08-03T03:22:47+00:00

Thank you poopdawg15, I love reading old books, documents and anything educational. This is history

IkeConn · 2021-07-30T18:47:23+00:00

Too bad you can't go back and warn them. That would be a good story.

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Chipit · 2021-07-23T02:02:10+00:00

Thanks man

d3rr · 2021-07-23T00:35:47+00:00

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Zapped · 2021-07-23T00:22:17+00:00

u/d3rr

u / batto, the latest incarnation of the Americans bot, has been increasingly spamming the site over multiple subs and it may be time to ban this username.

yoke · 2021-07-16T20:55:38+00:00

ben franklin rolls in his grave.

ArcturianDeathTrap · 2021-07-15T04:50:49+00:00

"Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And the process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Alien is always right." - George Orwell, 1984

UberGeekUtah · 2021-07-14T21:19:07+00:00

Damn, I hope no-one tries to proofread my novels... I have probably offended everyone.... at least I tried to.

CompleteDoubterII · 2021-07-06T00:36:02+00:00

Also posted this on Notabug.

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atav · 2021-06-28T07:59:26+00:00

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kalchaya · 2021-06-27T14:26:30+00:00

Depends on the surgical mask. My 3M Brand has kept me flu free for two years now, the last year without the flu shot as backup. Compare that to the previous ten+ years where I got the flu two to five times every year. I'll always believe experience over anything doctors or talking heads say. There are nutjobs on both sides, spinning their yarns. One side wants to convince you that being a guinea pig for an experimental vaccine already proven beyond doubt to have nasty side effects (if not fatal outcomes), is a good deal. The other side wants to convince you that all masks are created equal, and none have any prophylactic benefit.

PatsyStone · 2021-06-25T18:55:05+00:00

...Trump.

terminal_velocity · 2021-06-25T18:11:57+00:00

If it's a hoax, why is Trump trying to take credit for creating a vaccine for it?

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iDontShift · 2021-05-31T13:18:30+00:00

You can still be prey, even when you believe the world to be divine.

believing isn't the same as knowing

predators prey...

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Node · 2021-05-18T10:49:51+00:00

your dumb

Chipit · 2021-05-18T08:08:37+00:00

Oh really, so that's where you get your tactics, watching videos. I was sure you paid social media influencers had training materials, and I was right.

Chipit · 2021-05-18T08:07:40+00:00

modern people are depraved moronic scum. Hopefully natural selection will reassert itself and this will be corrected in the future.

Bahahahahaha...u r so SMRT.

Node · 2021-05-17T23:18:46+00:00

You misspelled "Kruger".

Classic. Up there with "your dumb".

Chipit is also the same user claiming "you're a far leftist", and that I'm just pretending to hold my current opinions.

I just scanned through several videos a day ago by a self-diagnosed "very mentally ill" leftist, who claims to teach fellow correct-thinkers how to infiltrate White Supremacist sites and communities, to dox and take them down. One of her fall back tactics 'when things get rough' is to accuse the 'White Supremacists' who are onto her agenda of being jews, leftists, cia, or some other such group.

Don't know if that's really what /u/Chipit is up to, but it did appear to mimic his tactics.

*The 'barking dog' analogy is both sadly apt, and kind of funny.

fschmidt · 2021-05-17T20:32:32+00:00

You misspelled "Kruger".

I didn't say anything about myself so the Dunning-Kruger effect has no bearing on what I wrote.

Historically other people did have a ton of smart things to say, which is why I love history and read a lot of old books. Unfortunately this is not the case for modern people. As I have repeatedly pointed out, without rebuttal, modern people are depraved moronic scum. Hopefully natural selection will reassert itself and this will be corrected in the future.

Chipit · 2021-05-17T19:56:51+00:00

The Dunning-Krueger effect. You don't know nearly as much as you think you do. If you actually did, you'd realize that other people have a ton of smart things to say that you'd never think of. Even janitors and nurses.

But shine on, galaxy brain. You tell off those morons and make yourself feel better about your low station in life.

fschmidt · 2021-05-17T19:54:25+00:00

Go ahead and tell me about this history.

Chipit · 2021-05-17T19:48:22+00:00

Oh look at the galaxy brain here judging the rest of mankind as too stupid to speak. Wow, that totally doesn't have a history of backfiring on people who say it.

fschmidt · 2021-05-17T19:05:06+00:00

How much value does free speech have for barking dogs? This is the current situation for the vast majority of modern humanity who are too stupid to say anything of value, or even to understand anything said of value.

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Fiyanggu · 2021-05-07T23:03:10+00:00

They only publish "correct" books with "right" thoughts. It's big brother!

Chipit · 2021-05-06T16:27:52+00:00

... Did you believe all men want to rape because you do or something?

That all men are rapists has been established as fact for a generation at least, and I am astonished that you are not familiar with it.

How'd I shit on men?

Sorry for my mistake, I'll expect less in the future.

You're arguing against yourself. And losing.

verypeaktrans · 2021-05-06T15:35:44+00:00

Oh shit, you're serious.

... Did you believe all men want to rape because you do or something?

How'd I shit on men? For thinking better of them and then being disappointed when I'm wrong? I'm not talking about "society" I'm talking about me and what I believe(d). And I would not have put that number so high. Sorry for my mistake, I'll expect less in the future.

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