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Re: Ask HN: What’s your favorite talk from 2017?

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Post by dkoubsky »

DeusExMachina wrote: post #9

Not a single talk, but a series: Jordan Peterson’s Psychological Significance of the Bible Stories. As an atheist I found his explanations extremely interesting. Peterson is a brilliant scholar and draws connections between psychology and brain structures, human evolution, and religion. I don’t believe in any trascendental being, but listening to these lectures made me understand better the psychological and moral va…

I have to agree. Peterson's lectures were the most interesting and beneficial things that I listened to this year.

Re: Ask HN: What’s your favorite talk from 2017?

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Post by vinc »

jnsaff2 wrote: post #15

Having just gotten back from 34C3 I'm going to post a few of my favorites from there: Dude, you broke the Future! https://media.ccc.de/v/34c3-9270-dude_you_broke_the_future Pointing Fingers at 'The Media' https://media.ccc.de/v/34c3-9106-pointing_fingers_at_the_med... Social Cooling - big data’s unintended side effect https://media.ccc.de/v/34c3-8797-social_cooling_-_big_data_s... Full list here: https://media.ccc.de…

I couple of months ago I found a good TED talk on the same topic as your first link:

We're building a dystopia just to make people click on ads https://www.ted.com/talks/zeynep_tufekci_we_re_building_a_dy...

Re: Ask HN: What’s your favorite talk from 2017?

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Post by vog »

A deep analysis on social bots, fake news, hate speech and filter bubbles on Twitter. This is questions the existence, as well as quality of studies about, the co-called "social bots" (which turned out to either have no influence, or to be real people with "too much" free time):

Michael Kreil: Social Bots, Fake News und Filterblasen

https://media.ccc.de/v/34c3-9268-social_bots_fake_news_und_f...

(German talk, but the video contains an audio track with a good English translation.)

Re: Ask HN: What’s your favorite talk from 2017?

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Post by DeusExMachina »

wu-ikkyu wrote: post #16
DeusExMachina wrote: post #9

Not a single talk, but a series: Jordan Peterson’s Psychological Significance of the Bible Stories. As an atheist I found his explanations extremely interesting. Peterson is a brilliant scholar and draws connections between psychology and brain structures, human evolution, and religion. I don’t believe in any trascendental being, but listening to these lectures made me understand better the psychological and moral va…

>listening to these lectures made me understand better the psychological and moral value of these stories You might enjoy the Power of Myth by Joseph Campbell.

I am tangentially familiar with the work of Campbell, but yes. Peterson often talks about the hero myth and outher Jungian archetypes.

Re: Ask HN: What’s your favorite talk from 2017?

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Post by DeusExMachina »

dkoubsky wrote: post #21
DeusExMachina wrote: post #9

Not a single talk, but a series: Jordan Peterson’s Psychological Significance of the Bible Stories. As an atheist I found his explanations extremely interesting. Peterson is a brilliant scholar and draws connections between psychology and brain structures, human evolution, and religion. I don’t believe in any trascendental being, but listening to these lectures made me understand better the psychological and moral va…

I have to agree. Peterson's lectures were the most interesting and beneficial things that I listened to this year.

Hands down. I can say I am a very different person from The one I was before listening to him.

Roughly speaking ;)

Re: Ask HN: What’s your favorite talk from 2017?

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Post by gooro »

Ada banyak yang harus kita perbaiki di tahun ini, saya memilih jadi penonton selama 1 tahun dengan tujuan menjaga dan menghargai semua privasi, menahan dengan emosi dan terus bersabar atas apa yang terjadi dengan global,saya menyadari bahwa saya bukan siapa2 dan terus belajar dengan apa yang kita pelajari,kemampuan blog saya bisa mencapai 73jt, (terjemahan melebihi dari virus) #duniasatu1

Re: Ask HN: What’s your favorite talk from 2017?

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Post by vikuunishmuug »

jnsaff2 wrote: post #15

Having just gotten back from 34C3 I'm going to post a few of my favorites from there: Dude, you broke the Future! https://media.ccc.de/v/34c3-9270-dude_you_broke_the_future Pointing Fingers at 'The Media' https://media.ccc.de/v/34c3-9106-pointing_fingers_at_the_med... Social Cooling - big data’s unintended side effect https://media.ccc.de/v/34c3-8797-social_cooling_-_big_data_s... Full list here: https://media.ccc.de…

Additionally,

The Ultimate Apollo Guidance Computer Talk (https://youtu.be/xx7Lfh5SKUQ)

Re: Ask HN: What’s your favorite talk from 2017?

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Post by youdontknowtho »

DeusExMachina wrote: post #9

Not a single talk, but a series: Jordan Peterson’s Psychological Significance of the Bible Stories. As an atheist I found his explanations extremely interesting. Peterson is a brilliant scholar and draws connections between psychology and brain structures, human evolution, and religion. I don’t believe in any trascendental being, but listening to these lectures made me understand better the psychological and moral va…

Isn't Jordan Peterson also famous for being a proponent of racial IQ theories?

I'm really skeptical about IQ in general, but anyone popular with the far right really makes me suspicious.

I'll take a look at the link you provided...But man, there are an awful lot of 1488 types that support this guy. It really makes me question where he is coming from.

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