My Chat with Evolutionary Psychologist Pascal Boyer - Part II (THE SAAD TRUTH_483)

[@mlberg2327]

It´s amazing. Gad Saad produces more content than some channels that does this full time! Take notes.

[@colinniko8574]

Pro tip: you can watch series on flixzone. I've been using it for watching a lot of movies during the lockdown.

[@aronmatthias3400]

@Colin Niko definitely, have been watching on Flixzone} for months myself :)

[@julzsadventuresinmusic7492]

LOL when ppl complain about bad quality microphones when what determines the quality of a microphone is not based on its function to transduce intelligible speech. Bad quality mics are by definition better at this because of the piercing high-frequency content that is produced from them. If it really was so important to have a good quality mic for speaking then why haven't phones ever had good quality microphones built in... heres a hint: because it changes fuck all with the intelligibility

[@benjaminperez969]

Gad Saad, listening to this talk made me want to hear you have a talk with Steven Pinker - maybe that could happen? PS: great talk with Boyer - please keep 'em comin'!

[@mannylenz5288]

That explains why Mongolian music hits me in the feels.

[@gregzeng]

Physics lecturer Feynman set very high "entertainment" standards. Show-person-skills are very much part of Jewish culture, but most of us do not have that "Jesus" touch. In my decades of past work, it is very hard to be multi-skilled, multi-talented, in both depth and width. The concluding discussion of research projects: depth and then width, in that order. If the researcher needs direct & immediate accountability to a close-supervisor, it makes it very dangerous to depart from conventionally received wisdom. Genius innovations needs guaranteed long-term freedom from Social Justice Warriors. Charles Darwin, Jane Goodall etc could not have developed such deviant thoughts whilst tightly institutionalized. Google, IBM etc know that this tight cultural conformity to a closed corporate culture, kills true innovation. Treatment of social deviants like myself here in Australia reflects similar results. Good to see that both "social deviants" in the video survived being daringly "different", even if only very slightly from the mainstream. Gadd of course attracts SLW attacks, but because he is a cis-white -male in a cis-white-patriarchy, he is surviving, atm.

[@adognamedsally]

(Atheist here) Isn't it true that with secularization of culture, we are just adopting new secular 'religions'? It seems to me that everyone has a set of bedrock principals that they arrived at without reason but through faith of some sort. Religion as we know it seems to just make these explicit, whereas the secular 'religions' at once masquerade as objective and empirical whilst still having to make leaps of faith to establish their epistemology.

[@adognamedsally]

I'm questioning what constitutes a religion. Because on one hand you have things like Christianity which specifically posit a god etc. etc., but on the other hand you have structures of doctrinal beliefs held dogmatically. In universities, for example, you are expected to believe that Trump is evil and that BLM is a good thing, that feminism is the future etc., and not because you have a good reason, but because it's part of the dogma. i.e., it's sacrosanct not to believe it. For other examples, we could look at anti-SJW culture. If anyone says the word 'safe space' or 'problematic' while purporting to be against SJWs, it's like a dog whistle. Everyone perks up and starts to question their 'loyalty' in a manner of speaking. Basically, I am asking if religion isn't really just a by-product of our tribal nature as homo sapien, and not specifically limited to structures of belief which posit a god.

[@adognamedsally]

Sure, but not only those, also skepticism, atheism, or any other 'tribal identifier'. Basically, one you identify with the ideology - whatever it is - you are encouraged to follow the 'dogma' to be part of the tribe. I just wonder if 'religion' is nothing more than an advanced form of groupthink due to being tribal animals.

[@jesperburns]

Is there an option on Patreon, where I can only pay for these (high quality) talks? Because honestly, this is the only reason I'm here, the amazing conversations you have with other intelligent people..

[@opblitz87]

Everyone who wants Slavoj Zizek (the post-modern dragon himself) to be invited thumb up! Only Gad Saad himself can slay the dragon and save the world,

[@Synthminator]

That would be epic, and so on and so on

[@SputnikExperiment]

... and I thought it was cocaine induced word salad. Talking with Zizek would be like talking with Dr. Sbaitso. [An artificial intelligence ELIZA clone packaged with the early Sound Blaster audio cards. Good times, kek]

[@opblitz87]

Michal Szczeskiewicz ... and I thought that... jestem jedynym Polakiem oglądającym Saad Truth i Jego Ekscelencję Gada 😁

[@SputnikExperiment]

oplitz87, tylko ze mieszkam w Kanadzie. Warto jeszcze obejrzec rozmowe Gad'a z Hazem Faraj i Brother Rashid -- tym bardziej dla Europejczykow. [i Kanadykczykow] Peterson tez jest dobry, i ze starszego pokolenia McLuhan i Frye. Nie wiem co myslec o Pinker. Czy w Polsce tez ucza te ideologiczne bzdury? ... in English, the talk with Hazem Faraj and Brother Rashid is also worth checking out. Peterson's quite amazing. McLuhan and Frye are both really cool, if you do older talks. Still donno what to make of Pinker. Do they also teach this post modernist rubbish in Polish campuses? Wish more people would watch Gad, here in Canada and overseas.

[@opblitz87]

Well, I have a degree in Management and Electrical Engineering and as far as I can say Polish higher education system is free from such things. Also I never heard about feminist studies, gender studies or anything like that taking place in Poland. After watching many hours of Gad Saad, Peterson, Rubin Report and others, I have to say that Poland is a deeply conservative country. Not necessarily right-wing, but definitely conservative. Here one have to be good in STEM fields or won't achieve anything in his/her life. Period. Maybe beacause we're still developing country and we have no time or money for bullshit. Or maybe because after 40 years of communism we are immune to left-wing propaganda? Hard to say. BTW. sorry for my english.

[@shaughnessyneal9426]

Thanks, Gad.

[@DavidMorley123]

excellent discussion. Got me thinking any tracks. Thanks for your interview. I wish Boyer's sound was better. I had to listen to him repeatdly sometimes o understand him.

[@vsear5911]

I find the concept of natural tendencies towards social capital in smaller groups explaining the psychological predisposition to espouse bureucratic nightmares in the modern world to be quite fascinating. Is there anyone in specific who has postulated this in further detail, or otherwise actual research done into the hypothesis?

[@testnameone806]

Boyer's upcoming book sounds interesting.

[@gregzeng]

Beter audio quality ... hints. Boyer was Skyping? with the notebook computer's inbuilt microphone? Several post-production technicals needed; sound volume normalization, and bass-filter to lessen room echo. Future broadcasts: 1) use an external microphone (Lavalier, desktop, head-mounted, etc) directly plugged into the video capture device (smartphone, computer, tablet, etc) 2) as above in 1), but use a wireless link to the video capture device (wifi such as Bluetooth) 3) have a Lavalier microphone attached onto the clothing of the "talent". This Lavier has the other end attached to a input of a smartphone. Then upload the sound capture from the smartphone to an email address, or to a cloud drive like Google, etc. Integrating this second sound source into the main screen capture can be tedious, requiring skilled work?

[@stevebrake4676]

I'm on strike until something actually happens, this is bs

[@roysmith5711]

Come on Professor Boyer, get a better mic. Could not listen to any of the two episodes.

[@4EyedAnimation]

buy him one if its that big of a concern for you.

[@UtarEmpire]

You should pray to St. Katy Perry next time that she might, in her beneficence, offer her recording studio and flight tickets to Dr. Saad and his interviewee.

[@peterjordansonthe2nd731]

Roy Smith It's not his mic, it's his accent

[@jesperburns]

I had issues with neither, so it might be your headphones.

[@gantmj]

It's not the mic that's the problem, it's the volume difference between the two. Since Gad's mic is so much quieter, it forces us to make the over all volume louder, which results in Pascal's mic assaulting our ear drums with loud and irritating high frequencies.