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It's not necessarily a mistake to lay yourself open to attack because sometimes it reveals the motives of the attackers

Don't do interviews that will be edited

We can't have equality of outcome amongst people with lower than 83 IQs

The only thing that's worse than the pain of inequality is the pain of forced equality

The biggest difference between men and women is an interest

The envious and the resentful can use compassion as a camouflage for their true intent which is to tear down anyone who has more than them

Agreeableness motivates aggression

You're not perfect man. There's hatred in you. And the probability that it's more powerful than love is pretty damn high. Look to your own viewpoint before you go out there and try to fix the hierarchies of the world

What happens If you get rid of the hierarchy

If you get rid of the hierarchy you get rid of the value structure, you get rid of the tools that allow us to generate absolute wealth and stop people from starving it's catastrophe. You have to have the hierarchy

As the societies get more egalitarian the differences between men and women get bigger. You make the societies more egalitarian men and women get more different

Differences between men and women get more extreme at the ends of the distribution

A world of equality of outcome could not be achieved if there are actual differences between people

There's a tiny percentage of men who are hyper-competitive along those single axis of competition and maybe they drive most things. They probably do. But that doesn't make them right. It also doesn't make them most people

Once you make enough money to keep the bill collectors at bay, additional money doesn't improve your quality of life. Other things do

How much socioeconomic success are you willing to sacrifice to spend time with your kids before they're three years old? That should not be none!

How much you make is not the only hallmark of success in your life

Cheating is common but it's not the norm. It's still the norm not to do that. The norm is fidelity

Society's tilt towards monogamy across the world is human universal

Women are high Pergamus which means they meet across a knop dominance hierarchies and so if you're a male who's successful in a given hierarchy the probability that you're gonna have additional mating opportunities is exceptionally high. It's an unbelievably good predictor of that

The man who are winning should be allowed to win and the woman should be allowed to choose. Yes except that there's the problem of children

The problem with hierarchies is that they can get too steep and destabilize everything. That does happen. That particularly happens in the sexual domain

I'm not in favor of unbridled hierarches. The proclivity of a hierarchy is that all the spoils go to the person at the top and that can destabilize the whole structure. We have to have a dialogue about how to rectify that

polygamous society

If a polygamous society develops which is the alternative of monogamy, then a small minority of men get all the women and also making the women unhappy because the women don't have any access to a genuine intimate one-to-one relationship over any long period of time

To the degree that we deviate monogamy we tilt towards a more violent society