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You have to work to take care of yourself and what you want in this moment but then there's you tomorrow, and there's you next week and there's you next month the next year, ten years from now and when you are old... So because you are self-conscious and because you are aware of the future you are actually a community unto yourself. And if you are selfish and impulse all that means is that you are serving the person you are right now in that impulsive way but not the person you are going to be. That's not a good ground for any sort of ethical behavior

Power in a hierarchy is the right way to be. Human hierarchies are very complex and that the way that you win human hierarchy is by being competent and reciprocal

Every single person who sets out to put themselves together ethically is a net positive to everyone around them. There is no downside to that

Ego is the enemy

If you overestimate your abilities you're in deep trouble because you're gonna get a wake-up call. Objectivity is one of the most critical aspects of development. You have to be objectively assessing your strength and weaknesses at every step of the way

One of the most deadly things for a fighter to do is to overestimate his own position

As the technology is supplanted the ideological polarization increases as the thing dies

Big things disappear when they get crooked and ideologically rigid

When you edit someone and take their words out of context and change them around you are being deceptive

Maybe ten times as many people can listen to complex information as can read complex information in terms of their ability to process it

Spoken word is now as powerful as the written word. That's never happened in human history

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