alexryan

All companies in China are required to do whatever the CCP tells them to do. If you have more than 100 employees, you must have a member of the CCP to provide oversight. Zhang Zhiming, the CEO of Byte Dance publicly grovels to the CCP. Here is his public statement: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BZa0FGThXak&t=5m4s

I suspect that many genuinely kind hearted people think they are doing the right thing by silencing the speech of those whom they find repulsive but have never stopped to ask themselves “Why are the oligarchs on my side?” Project Dragonfly is alive and well and unfolding before our very eyes. This is how democracy dies.

Good idea. Psychopaths are apparently 1% of the population. People with Narcissistic Personality Disorder (NPD) apparently have very a different brain anomaly. It might be necessary to have separate tests for each: https://bit.ly/2zMPGqB

It’s a fair point and a genuinely real phenomenon. However, in my experience, people with low PCL-R scores who make bad decisions when in emotional states are likely to change their position when they realize they have inadvertently harmed the innocent. Genuine psychopaths, on the other hand, are incurable predators.

It’s a fair point and a genuine real phenomenon. However, in my experience, people with low PCR-L scores who make bad decisions when in emotional states are likely to change their position when they realize they have inadvertently harmed the innocent. Genuine psychopaths, on the other hand, are incurable predators.

I wonder if previous uprisings against the elites were preceded by similar displays of callous indifference for the suffering of the lower classes.

If Jeffrey Epstein had preyed upon the children of the coastal elites instead of the children of the poor, I suspect that the subject would be less “tricky”.

I cannot think of anything more terrifying than high IQ sociopaths.

And so Joi Ito will continue to be in charge of "Ethics" at the MIT Media Lab?

Fair. And if the left extended their "circle of caring" beyond the intersectionality hierarchy to include everyone who suffers we could stop wasting time fighting each other and work together for the betterment of all.

Re: non-underprivileged mass shooters ...

I'm not currently aware of any of mass shooters who are super rich, have super high IQs and tonnes of girl friends.

okay. it's just kind of humorous because choosing to downvote an expressed concerned instead of responding to it might be considered to be a form of "social exclusion" encouraged by the platform which apparently "fuels extremism".

Any explanation for the down votes?

His biases are interesting but what really matters is the data. Either his empirical findings are correct or they are incorrect.

It might be that the truth is in the middle. Clearly the design was great but hindering repairability is a legitimate criticism.

I recall watching a young child from a poor family in an Apple Store trying to get the iPad that she loved repaired and the family being told that her only option was to purchase a new one which they clearly could not afford. Seeing how distraught it made the little girl really bothered me. That was the day that I started to intensely hate Apple.

In fairness, however, hindering repairability feels like a business decision that Ive may not have been responsible for.

~50% of males have their genes exterminated each generation.

Their experience of reality is probably very different than yours.

That does not mean that their reality is not real.

If you are not part of this group, congrats on winning the genetic lottery.

Their reality may indeed seem very “warped” to you.

But the probability is high that either your sons or your grandsons will experience this warped reality as well.

Yes. There is an entire industry devoted to teaching men how to trick women into having sex with them.

If you just want to gratify yourself, there is plenty of opportunity.

I don’t think that any of that will change the 50% rate of extermination of men.

Have you experienced having a woman you loved and who genuinely seemed to be in love with you get pregnant by another man and try to convince you that you that you are father?

There is nothing "false" about the hopelessness that you feel when this happens to you.

I don't mean in any way to downplay the genuinely deep suffering experienced by many women, but everyone knows that many such attempts are cries for help rather than genuine attempts.

The fact is that men successfully kill themselves at much higher rates across all cultures.

Of course they do. Females are hypergamous. Through no fault of their own they have been genetically programmed by evolution to desire the highest status males. Studies have shown that women rank 80% of the men on dating sites as "below average".

It is understandable why people would downvote an emotionally sensitive issue like this, but suppressing the truth is not a good long term strategy.

Yeah. Personally, I think Peterson is in the business of offering false hope to the condemned. A useful service to the elites. But the evidence is the evidence. Suppressing the truth is not a good long term strategy in the age of the internet.

Fair. My understanding is that in each generation HALF of the males have their genes exterminated. In "12 Rules for Life", Jordan Peterson says that human female choosiness is the reason why humans evolved faster than chimpanzees, so I guess this is for the best.

I suspect this is why rates of male suicide are so much higher than female suicide. Why bother to live if you are genetically unfit?

Women know this. I suspect this is why the rates of postpartum depression in women is nearly twice as high when the baby is a boy. They know there is a high probability that their baby is destined for a life of suffering.

New York Times The Missing Men in Your Family Tree, 2007 You might be right. My partner got herself pregnant by another man and tried to convince me that I was the father. If the woman who you thought loved you did this to you, it might bother you slightly.

We have twice as many female ancestors as male. That's not a myth. It's an uncomfortable truth.

Conservatives tend to "aversion" as their coping mechanism (at its extreme, this might be labelled "hate") whereas liberals tend towards "connection" as their coping mechanism (at its extreme this might be labelled "greed"). Interestingly in buddhism "greed, hate and delusion" are considered to be the 3 poisons. i.e. clinging to either greed or hate leads to delusion.

Isn't the fact that "hate speech" is a "thing" whereas "greed speech" is not evidence of a liberal bias?

We are survival machines for genes and are biologically programmed to move in the world in a fashion that our genes survive. Females desire to mate with the highest status males and males are compelled to fight each other for status in order to win the females with the best genes. It's horrible but its true.

No good person wants criminal police officers to not be held to account but simply passing laws is unlikely to have the desired effect. Many police departments in the united states are already highly corrupted at the highest levels. Its not as bad as it is in Mexico where the drug lords have actually taken over, but its getting close.

You might be missing the point. Assuming that all the good guys are supervisors and all the bad guys are the supervised is an unwise assumption to make. The bad guys can simply become supervisors and weed out the good guys. Entire police departments have been corrupted in this fashion. If you over simplify the problem the solution is unlikely yield the desired result.

"giving superior officers licence to search them for punishable behaviour" seems like a legitimate concern. You seem to be assuming that the "superior officers" will have "the best interests of the public" as their sole motivation. In my experience that is rarely true of ladder climbers. By not dealing with this concern you could easily end up making things worse.

It’s my strong intuition that there is indeed a link between accelerated progress, including the disruption of moral barriers erected by previous generations to ensure peace, and the eruption of movements (both fascist and communist) driven by a desire to eradicate the elites believed to be responsible for the suffering caused.