Joe Rogan Experience #1006 - Jordan Peterson & Bret Weinstein
Why Hacker News recommends it
HN commenters cite it as a wide-ranging conversation on political polarization and free discussion, and one commenter points to a segment on wealth distribution following a square-root law.
What it is
A long Joe Rogan Experience podcast episode with psychologist Jordan Peterson and biologist Bret Weinstein, recorded during the controversy at Evergreen State College. They discuss campus politics, polarization, ideology and related social topics.
Recommended by 1 HN commenters across 1 different months, 2017 to 2018.
What Hacker News said
Recommends esaym · 2018-09 · on “Ask HN: What can we do to stop the rich from getting richer?”
Start here at 1:30:30 [this video] and see all of nature follows a law of square roots. If you have 10,000 people, 100 will have all the money. If you have 10,000 music artist, only 100 will be getting their songs heard. This is a law of nature. Stop fighting against it and spend some time understanding it.
Cites superpope99 · 2017-09 · on “The Vacuity of Postmodernist Methodology (2005) [pdf]”
Found this interesting after recently listening to a lot of Jordan Peterson talks - especially the latest Joe Rogan Experience episode #1006 [this video]
Cites AndrewKemendo · 2017-09 · on “At liberal tech companies, those who disagree on politics say they’re isolated”
A recent Joe Rogan Podcast had a really interesting discussion about this [1]. Basically one of the key points, especially in light of people being called Nazis (accurately or spuriously), is that one of the major social aspects of pre-war Germany was that there was radical polarization between fascist and anti-fascist groups similar to what we see now. However because the psychological makeup of someone who would support fascism is more drawn toward structuralism, law and order etc... they are much more organized and lethal as a group. You see echoes here with the Alt-Right and Antifa. Alt-Right is structured, highly armed, biologically motivated (aka racist) and generally support law enfor
Cites snikeris · 2018-02 · on “Sex and STEM: Stubborn Facts and Stubborn Ideologies”
This episode of the Joe Rogan podcast w/ Jordan Peterson and Bret Weinstein touches on similar issues (among other things) and discusses why it's still important to have discussions like these: [this video]