I am sure most of you dislike Sam Harris, but the first podcast episode with Jordan Peterson is just so funny.
Here straight to the good part: https://youtu.be/2lO6WJ9rfs4?t=6805
JFK I remember that episode. I was still listening to Harris at the time even though I'd realized he is an asshole.
That shit was such a clusterfuck. The only thing I knew about Peterson at the time was pronoun thing, and that my lib coworker had sent me his incoherent TED Talk because she thought it was interesting and I watched it like 4 times trying to find something generous to say about it besides that it was unintelligible dogshit.
And then I listened to the podcast and they couldn't talk about anything because Peterson had this ridiculous definition of truth and they couldn't agree on what truth was for 2 hours lol. It was then that I was confident I had Peterson figured out as a fraud.
The concept Peterson describes is not entirely uninteresting (it is useful in understanding some psychological processes) but it makes no sense at all to define that as truth.
It is more like strategic belief, i.e. what to believe to obtain the best outcomes, something that our brains naturally try to do in various cognitive biases or defense mechanisms.
I am sure most of you dislike Sam Harris, but the first podcast episode with Jordan Peterson is just so funny.
Here straight to the good part: https://youtu.be/2lO6WJ9rfs4?t=6805
JFK I remember that episode. I was still listening to Harris at the time even though I'd realized he is an asshole.
That shit was such a clusterfuck. The only thing I knew about Peterson at the time was pronoun thing, and that my lib coworker had sent me his incoherent TED Talk because she thought it was interesting and I watched it like 4 times trying to find something generous to say about it besides that it was unintelligible dogshit.
And then I listened to the podcast and they couldn't talk about anything because Peterson had this ridiculous definition of truth and they couldn't agree on what truth was for 2 hours lol. It was then that I was confident I had Peterson figured out as a fraud.
The concept Peterson describes is not entirely uninteresting (it is useful in understanding some psychological processes) but it makes no sense at all to define that as truth.
It is more like strategic belief, i.e. what to believe to obtain the best outcomes, something that our brains naturally try to do in various cognitive biases or defense mechanisms.
Jesus Fucking Khrist