Understanding the weirdness of humans

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This video is about one way to get your head around why people in general are just plain odd.
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[@michaelvins3215]

Lloyd should write a book that is about precisely nothing in particular.

[@fionafiona1146]

It would had to have a beige print and cover (maybe embossed letters so one can see them).

[@garret1930]

Beige pages with beige cover, the text is comic sans in dark red ink.

[@nope1083]

that would be the name of the book "nothing in particular" by Loyd

[@matti-vc4nu]

and he should call it 50 shades of Beige

[@titobenito43]

I'd buy it.

[@PaulPaulPaulson]

Since I finished growing up, my length is fixed. Now I'm defined by my width.

[@Squeejee09]

Luckily, we all have quite a degree of control over our width.

[@Pining_for_the_fjords]

Unfortunately my width is determined by my love of cheesecake.

[@Rokaize]

Paul Paulson width of what? Is this a dingus joke? Like the front naughty?

[@jarredmace1080]

@@Rokaize he's probably talking about his waist.

[@rockyfalldownstairs]

thicc

[@Shadow77999]

"Its so stupid that only an intellectual could believe it" genius

[@goreil2489]

Ill need a few beers to get my head around that!

[@ambjornborjesson5481]

That's a classical thing to say tho

[@menshour]

From wikiquote There are some ideas so absurd that only an intellectual could believe them. - Possibly a paraphrase of Bertrand Russell in My Philosophical Development (1959): "This is one of those views which are so absurd that only very learned men could possibly adopt them." It is similar in meaning to Orwell's line from Notes on Nationalism (1945): "One has to belong to the intelligentsia to believe things like that: no ordinary man could be such a fool." However, Russell was commenting not on politics, as Orwell was, but on some philosophers and their ideas about language.

[@JoeyVol]

Back when I was trying to convince my friends to buy Bitcoin when it had lulled at 300-350 for a year or so I realized I'm so smart in comparison to them that they think I'm stupid.

[@Thomas-jc3bv]

It's even funnier because he's a career intellectual.

[@alekseischafer4287]

‘The baby sent to france...doesn’t bare thinking about.’ lol I love that sort of spontaneous jab.

[@omri6938]

My greatest disappointment was learning I would never grow up to be a squirrel.

[@gnarlestongnu637]

Wouldn't that require shrinking down?

[@morningstar9233]

You can be whatever you want Omi, my little squirrel

[@jeremy1392]

@@morningstar9233 if furries want the right to be animals, we have the right to hunt them.

[@morningstar9233]

Hunt the little squirrels, Jeremy.@@jeremy1392

[@loddude5706]

Nut allergies can be cruel kid, tough luck.

[@davelewthwaite]

*Waves sword* "I studied psychology at Newcastle!" Yup, this checks out.

[@carlosandleon]

@Marry Christmas As a non brit i always think Newcastle upon Tyne is the default Newcastle.

[@madgeordie4469]

@@carlosandleon Absolutely! Newcastle upon Tyne is the only genuine one. All of the others are just pale imitations.

[@EndrChe]

After an absence, I find the quality and depth of these videos has increased substantially from an already high mark.

[@cuckmasterflex9106]

Pat fenis

[@declanedmison5442]

Cuck Master Flex Well.

[@Idefkmahn]

@@cuckmasterflex9106 you tell em

[@sacredgeometry]

"Truth trumps everything" Yep. We are in dire need of integrity in this world.

[@JoeyVol]

Not only integrity; but a basis of reality that is based objective realities.

[@argonhammer9352]

@@JoeyVol What do you believe the problem is hmmm?

[@aviancypress5181]

America needs a heavy dose

[@misssarahashplant31]

Vero nihil verius.

[@Ghryst]

@@argonhammer9352 he just stated what he believes the problem to be. you might require an IQ of some description to be able to read between his lines though. if i say i need water, i am also saying that my problem is a lack of water.

[@nancyvolker3342]

you don't have a bald patch you have a brain ventilation system

[@RealSB]

"Bald patchs are the peacock feathers of maturity and intelligence." - Bald Guy

[@itsmonsta8614]

His brain is so big it's pushed the hair out!

[@graeme3023]

Is the mouthful of broken teeth he has a _"jaw ventilation system?"_

[@amiller112]

@@itsmonsta8614 Its because his height is higher than his hair ceiling

[@moonasha]

it's his convertible

[@thechumpsbeendumped.7797]

How could you contemplate something as diabolical as sending a child to France?

[@iBlagg8]

So we can rehearse grief ofc

[@Robert_Emu_Lee]

stuart cole We have baguettes

[@thechumpsbeendumped.7797]

George Pêcheur and you know what you can do with them. 😉

[@Samwell314]

@@Robert_Emu_Leemake it a jambon beurre and you're on to something!

[@sevenproxies4255]

Diabolical indeed. The poor child will be force fed vile things like snails and frogs legs. :(

[@kasper7203]

I flunked out of triangulation school and now only have one working eye.

[@engleberteverything421]

Yeah, I know a guy who got a C and had to get glasses.

[@dELTA13579111315]

I scored a 20/20 on the final exam

[@kasper7203]

@Ei Dirst wheee :D 3rd dimension is for sissies

[@JackPorter]

@@kasper7203 me after getting called out: :( You sitting there smug: .)

[@welshpete12]

"The idea that men and women are the same upstairs , is so stupid . That only an intellectual could believe it " ! Wonderful stuff ! :-)

[@butterskywalker8785]

technically males and females ARE different,because nobody is really the same

[@zejdland]

@Ei Dirst actually women are way more emotional and dramatic

[@MrTrollinglol]

@@zejdland that has to do more with your environment as a child. I think what happens is that women are generally "protected" more as children. If your son is being bullied, you tell him to sucker punch the kid. Your daughter is being bullied? you talk to the principle.

[@TheRustAdmin]

You have added punctuation where it was never used or required. "The idea that men and women are the same upstairs is so stupid that only an intellectual could believe it!" - Wonderful stuff! :-)

[@someonexd1961]

@@MrTrollinglol lmao what country were you braught up in where you tell your kids to hit other kids, yall need help

[@jorenbaplu5100]

Not many youtubers are still proud of their oldest work. Most cringe a bit and revel in the fact that they have improved so much over the years. Good on you for being able to plug your oldest videos

[@RandyKalff]

Most KZbinrs start when they're very young, so of course their early content will be cringe worthy and looked down on later in life. Loyd here had the advantage of having recorded that both when he was somewhat older and when recording such things wasn't as easy as pressing a few buttons.

[@Raneriu]

Yet he doesn't accept the wrong thing he has stated in many old videos, he made a video in 2009 outright denying man made climate change,yet has not either made one or a comment retracting that statement, I agree it's good to acknowledge your past videos no matter how wrong or cringey they are, but to talk of how much we should accept science like he did in this video, surely he should address the things he himself got wrong in the past, rather than just plugging his own videos that were (or might be ) right.

[@kendog84bsc]

Hey, don't forget his machine gun video too! ...we should leave some things to professionals...

[@Raneriu]

Aye, but we should also let people like Lloyd take a good crack at it anyway, I'd be far less knowledgeable on a lot of subjects if it wasn't for lindy (machine guns included) but with comments and further research you can get a good amount of knowledge on subjects you'd never have even thought of. But people like Lloyd should take responsibility, or at least acknowledge when they're misinformed or just straight up wrong alongside bringing new videos. I don't think anyone one would love his videos less if he admitted mistakes

[@Jesus-rp3kr]

His climate change video is utterly embarrassing , even though I respect him very much, it tarnishes his other videos especially since he apparently values "truth" and "facts" above all, yet he fell victim to corporate propaganda.

[@SeanMontebello]

"The baby sent to france.... doesn't bear thinking about"

[@RandyKalff]

Spoken as a true Brit.

[@SlideRulePirate]

A minute's silence?

[@SueBobChicVid]

Fell off my chair!

[@cityandsuburb]

Imagine the baby sent to Somalia....?!? Dreadful....

[@jessthehuman]

Why do people hate France so much? I mean, I guess I can think of why the British might, you know - because history. But they copped a pretty bad reputation as being "soft" when Napolean was basically the pre-WW2 Hitler and France the Pre-British "world power". I think the Americans think because France's allies fucked them in the leadup and start of WW2 and then the USA swept in right at the very end after the Nazi's were already terminally fucked (I don't doubt the US reduced the time until they were defeated, but it was inevitable by the time they jumped in) - that somehow that makes the US so much tougher than the French (who actually survived through the epicenter of BOTH world wars)

[@jnagtube]

I will never grow old of Lloyds french bashing.

[@vandor7368]

I love how you can ramble for half an hour without a single cut :) Cheers from Hungary!

[@kukulroukul4698]

Romanian here

[@willgillespie4840]

He can do it for 2 hours, believe it or not. Check out the Gladiators video

[@nobodyimportant5417]

"I was cutting edge! Once." Weren't we all. Now, I am old and tired, and get my amusement by feeding ducks at the pond. Sigh.

[@morningstar9233]

Maybe you're at the cutting edge of feeding ducks by the pond

[@nobodyimportant5417]

@@morningstar9233 EXTREME duck feeding. Now with three types of bread. Oh, yeah!

[@oneofmanyparadoxfans5447]

Don't worry. Age brings wisdom, and wise men speak the most amazing words of truth.

[@baddgerpaw]

@@nobodyimportant5417 now you need to upload a video of you feeding ducks while Infant Annihilator plays in the background, and have a frame of fire on the video. That will be some extreme duck feeding.

[@Captain_Wet_Beard]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/r5nYfn-mmdOCoLs

[@babysealsareyummy]

Lindybeige is the only person I know who can jump off topic so quickly and slide back into the main topic so gracefully. I would never be able to do that lol. After 5 sentences off topic, I'd be like "wait… what the hell was I talking about again?"

[@fukpoeslaw3613]

babysealsareyummy and that's already better than never noticing at all you're off topic!

[@General12th]

I know, right? He just kept talking in one long incredibly unbroken sentence moving from topic to topic so that no one had a chance to interrupt it was really quite hypnotic...

[@zoetropo1]

babysealsareyummy: my mother can pick up a topic (ad libitum) where we left off because of an interruption a year earlier.

[@SpaghettiEnterprises]

He may use cue cards...

[@zoetropo1]

Louis Stubbolo: a few lines will serve. I once made a speech at an international engineering conference from a single cue card with four key points on it. It received an ovation. :) :)

[@GusCraft460]

“The baby sent to France...doesn’t bear thinking about”

[@bernardedwards8461]

People are so desperate to get away from the tyranny of the EU that they take the most terrifying risks in their desperation to escape. One refugee tried to swim from Norway to Scotland in January! Needless to say, he didn't make it. Many others make the hazardous crossing from France, and some pay for it with their lives. Yet nitwits wonder why we left the EU! We had a very narrow escape. Other people are escaping all the time, especially from France. What idiot would send a child there, perhaps to be literally terrified out of its life?

[@Hiraghm]

::Lindybeige goes into long analogy of the area of a field:: Lindybeige: "So, what's responsible for the way humans turn out?" Me: "The length times the width?"

[@wolf1066]

LIndybeige: single-handedly keeping alive the enmity between England and France. I've just been having a look at your _Built for the Stone Age_ series. Tons of fun.

[@pieterhulsen9170]

"humans are weird" casually holds a medieval weapon over his shoulder.. I like you lindy

[@alexwood1142]

"People who actually do stuff like look at the evidence..." Genius.

[@gorkyd7912]

Social scientists look at the evidence. They just see it as a tool of patriarchal oppression.

[@tuna5305]

@@gorkyd7912 Mostly because they prefer to look at the past and the trees, not the forest and the truth.

[@Richi_Boi]

Built for the stone age? *loughs in supirior european agricultually influenced lactose tolerance*

[@Gilmaris]

Agriculture started in the stone age, you know. He didn't specify which stone age, he might well have meant the neolithic.

[@ineednochannelyoutube5384]

And fast alcohol metabolism. Screw your typhus we got beer.

[@marshaul]

I am well known for my superior loughing.

[@kapjoteh]

marshaul supirior*

[@marshaul]

@@kapjoteh Silly me!

[@Oxnate]

Lindybeige: ruining my dream of growing up to become a squirrel.

[@garymingy8671]

Hi , you need some stem cells , and an ap called crisper , ivdont know why squirrel , there was a 600 lb 9 foot tall ,gaint 3 toed sloth , aim high ! Keep going!

[@useodyseeorbitchute9450]

You should self identify as a squirrel. ;)

[@niniv2706]

@@useodyseeorbitchute9450 And then turn out to be a very very "lousy" squirrel" ;)

[@webcrawler2007]

"The notion that men and women are the same upstairs is so stupid only an intellectual would believe it." - the funniest, most profound quote this year

[@ViolosD2I]

Some women might state it because albeit wrong, it helps to fight the "history of ideas" issues. And some men might agree, either for the same reason or because they hope to get laid. But what kind of progress do you make if you have to put ideology over truth?

[@wowailyich615]

.... and the quote that will earn Lloyd a place in the hall of fame of "alt-right" sexist (probably voted for Brexit) demagogues standing in the way of true progress towards equity. Or some such. Too many people stating the obvious get branded these days, while I found this episode widely entertaining and insightful. Go evolutionary psychology!

[@dmitchel0820]

He's right, but calling someone stupid for having a wrong belief isn't exactly profound.

[@wowailyich615]

@@dmitchel0820 Given that we are talking about science here in this video: He says the NOTION is stupid. He was challenging an argument/idea. You interpreted is as an ad hominem attack. Which it wasn't. I say the point goes to Lindybeige in this one instant :)

[@chilldude30]

'so stupid only an intellectual could believe it' is a very old quote, originating from George Orwell. Lloyd is not the first to say it, so I'm afraid it's not the 'funniest, most profound quote of 2018'.

[@theheadbangguy5985]

I like how out of place Jeor Mormont looks alongside all the animals :D :D

[@TOBAPNW_]

He is, after all, the bear.

[@keifferellison45]

That was bugging me for a while haha. "Is that the fecking bear!?"

[@urmum4852]

"It's so stupid that only an intellectual could believe it." Fucking class.

[@flambr]

'Is it upsetting - I don't care' Lloyd you are a foken legend

[@mphelps7919]

"Sean Bean's not actually dead" - Aye, but he's pretty good at it.

[@Kurzes_Spiel]

Lloyd while holding a sword slightly menacingly: "HUMANS ARE WIERD"

[@libertasvirtusveritas9749]

Renaissance-man lindybeige! Love how many topics you have gotten yourself interested in; keep it up, the world needs more people like you!

[@jhonhammond4701]

Is there any explanation on the weirdness of the French?

[@Pfsif]

Nuclear Power Plants?

[@genau14zeichen]

German neighbors

[@Mr_Lo_]

How dare you, sir. France is the nation of romance! Just ask any barn animal...

[@morningstar9233]

No.

[@farmerned6]

The bitter knowledge of knowing that without british toughened glass bottle technology (for cider) there would be no champagne?, British merchants were producing "sparkling Champagne before the French were?

[@MrFirefox]

So Lindybeige wasn't born with a bald patch?... *Nonsense!*

[@MWSin1]

But he was born in a beige shirt and a sweater, right?

[@MrFirefox]

@@MWSin1 Humm yes, seems very possible from my calculations

[@KeanKennedy]

Nope, nurture made him bald. Probably worn too many helmets

[@goyonman9655]

"This has got nothing to do with swords" Lloyd is the G.O.A.T

[@simtexa]

One thing to note when comparing people of different groups (men & women, different ethnic groups etc) is the influence of in the variation within a group vs. variation between groups. When you compare two groups and claim that they are different it will not apply to all members of that group and some individuals will go against the norm. The inter-group variation will be between the mean intra-group variation. If say, Group A has a mean of 3 and Group B has a mean of 6, the variation between their means is 3. Within one group you may easily have both numbers below 3 and numbers above 6, and so the difference becomes less universal, not as absolute and often harder to observe. There is a difference, but it is only really meaningful on a group level (or in statistics), as opposed to on an individual level.

[@BaronVonQuiply]

I can just see those ancients sitting around the fire and conversing: We're not built for this world, you know. We're a product of the Paleolithic. The Paleolithic? What's that? Oh, it's a lot like this, only older. This is the Neolithic, and we're not built for it. *Neo* Lithic? I don't see what's so new about it. HEY! Who taught you Latin?!?

[@IronScion]

I read this in the voices of Monty python. Brought a bit of joy to my day. Thanks :)

[@jameson44k]

Pedantic, I know, but "paleo", "neo" and "lithic" all derive from Greek, not Latin.

[@BaronVonQuiply]

@@jameson44k I was afraid of that.

[@davebuchan81]

@@BaronVonQuiply Still a nice quip there mate. I almost had a thought like that but instead just went on listening to the ramblings. If you ever do that gag again you'll know to change the last word to Greek, which I think might even make it funnier...

[@CIA871]

jameson44k HEY! Who taught you Greek?!?

[@21owlgirl72]

The image of a teacher yelling at a student to figure.out triangulation made me chuckle

[@1337flite]

Trisha Dwyer you should go to a Malaysian math class you’d find it hysterical!!!! ;-)

[@animorph17]

That concept actually shows up a lot in HFY forums, where the age old "Humans have no instincts" line is put in direct opposition with aliens who very much disagree. "I have to strap a computer targeting system to my face and rely on mechanical augmentation to do the impossibly complex math involved in throwing this ball at that target. Human, how are you just casually scoring a hit without any augments at all!?"

[@thefirstprimariscatosicari6870]

@@animorph17 The human would reply with something only they can do without augmentation. Like seeing in the darkness. Also while we can throw stuff we are still terrible at it.

[@deifiedtitan]

@@animorph17 Funny you mention the ball analogy as it's used often to explain why stereotype accuracy is one of the most replicated findings in psychology. Your brain is a pattern recognition machine that can distil information you don't even notice into emotions and reactions that you can't begin to explain without post-hoc rationalisations. If someone threw a ball to you with the intent for you to catch it catch it, chances are you could probably do it unless you were otherwise impaired. If someone told you to work out every single variable involved in the arc of the ball, speed of the throw and where you need to place your hands you would find it impossible. For better or worse your brain is built for shortcuts.

[@deifiedtitan]

​@@thefirstprimariscatosicari6870 Terrible implies a standard. As an objective baseline, you have arms and hands so you're immediately more adept at throwing a ball than 99% of all known living creatures and your direct competition is other humans, machines humans built, or theoretical perfections that exist only in the minds of humans.

[@tyanellewin3416]

I love how some of this i'm nodding my head because i am currently doing A-Level psychology...glad to know i'm actually absorbing the knowledge in the classroom.

[@davewarwicker2512]

Be careful now, displaying an open mind will get you expelled.

[@stanleymoss3877]

9:27 I think the generally accepted reason is that some women, who may be discouraged from following a passion, should instead be encouraged to follow engineering, not for the sake of the field but for the fulfilment of the individual.

[@xcmodev1558]

Friend: falls off cliff Lloyd: *well, that’s inconvenient* Lol

[@lxvideostuff7200]

ive got a question. what if the friends just keep falling off the cliff and there is nothing you can do about it? shall you just keep feeling all the inconvenience? i think at some point enough is enough and shutting the inconvenience down is better, as at some point the inconvenience will shut you down instead. ?!

[@jameslamb4573]

A digression within a digression ................... like that's never happened before.

[@ZioStalin]

Digressception

[@Tarjenor]

"No amount of nurture would turn that into the Sydney opera house... or a squirrel." This as a standalone sentence is my new favorite sentence.

[@Castalex1992]

"The great curse", could had been the most unexpected sponsor opening ever. The Great Curses +

[@sonofeast11]

16:02 100 = 10^2 not 10^3. Thousand is 10^3. Myriad would therefore be 10^4. Sure you didn't mean the mistake but just making it clear for folks!

[@theSafetyCar]

I searched long and hard for a comment like this one just so I could like it. This could only have been destiny.

[@markchip1]

Thank you for adding this comment as you have saved me from having to do it myself!

[@ligmanuts2015]

If so then there would be more courses than all the tea bags in the world.

[@jefftucker201]

Sean Bean has died so many times in films, when he really does die I don't think anyone will believe it. lol

[@JerryEricsson]

In August of 1969, many young American's gathered in a field in New York State near the town of Woodstock and held the greatest rock concert in the entire history of mankind! While that was going on, the precise day, I was over a thousand miles West of Woodstock in a small chapel atop a hill on the outskirts of a small town in South Dakota. Beside me, stood the love of my life, Judy. On that day, we took our vows and were wed for life. Last year, Cancer took her life. It was a horrible time, she suffered greatly and it broke my heart every day to watch her decline until on the 4th day after our 51st wedding anniversary, cancer won the battle, and while I held her hand, as I had for the last 40 hours of her life, she died. Don't even try to tell me that grief does not exist. Even now, months since this happened, I cry when I think of that day, when I hear her last words, when we shared our last kiss just minutes before she died. Never in my life did I ever even consider the amount of pain that happens in such a situation, and believe me I have seen pain, I have felt tremendous pain in my life, but NOTHING compares to the grief of loosing the love of your life. The doctors are prescribing anti-depressants, as well as other drugs to try and keep me going, and they do some good, but none have the ability of killing the pain. Only a bullet, or perhaps a glass of poison, or, perhaps a whole bottle of pain killers would do the job and I could, once again hold the hand of the love of my life, if there is, indeed, an after life.

[@MrKelsomatic]

"If someone's born with terrific genes but then they're not fed and they're kept in a dark they'll just die. They won't turn into an adult at all. So obviously you need nurture." One of the most sound arguments I've ever heard, hahah. P.S. 23-year-old here, and a big fan of film photography!

[@SamFreelancePolice]

Very interesting, I'd love more videos on this subject!

[@brodieknight772]

Got any immediate questions that need a quick answer? I've done some research, I understand it quite well, and I love talking about it.

[@AndyJarman]

Patreon has started cancelling people's accounts to stop them discussing this. PayPal forced them to do it. Asserting we are all interchangeable justifies setting quotas as opposed to merely promoting equal opportunity. Because of the situation in Scandinavia with people choosing roles according to interest not income, minority activists are aggressively pushing against this and insisting on quotas to 'solve' the 'problem' . To talk about it is financial suicide if you rely on PayPal which services Patreon. Recently PayPal closed down a business called Subscribestar because people started going through Subscribestar to avoid using Patreon after a You Tuber decided he'd had enough. It's a mess, and we are NOT ALLOWED to discuss such things.

[@Gnurklesquimp]

The way a lot of people debate nature/nurture is similar to how a lot of people debate effort/talent/luck, it seems there is a lot of near absolute idealism going on in how some think of these ideas.

[@Hedgehog1039]

I have never understood how people can view things as so clean cut, black and white when in reality almost nothing is.

[@JohnDoe-ne4kg]

@@Hedgehog1039 it seems like it's easier to categorise and evaluate ideas quickly and "get shit done" if you see things in black and white. Oh look, there's s grizzly bear in your backyard. You happen to be holding a shotgun. Maybe the bear is just looking for some berries to eat before leaving. Maybe he's going to feel threatened by you and attack. I'd argue that people that think more in black-and-white -- ("I'm in danger") -- and shoot the hypothetical, unsuspecting bear immediately would be statistically more likely to survive and pass on their black/white thinking genes.

[@Hedgehog1039]

@@JohnDoe-ne4kg Hmm, I am not entirely convinved of that. Just because you don't expect it to attack doesn't mean you wouldn't be prepared to shoot it dead like the other type of person. I'd argue that having a wider range of ideas and opportunities at your disposal due to your way of thinking would result in higher success. Perhaps they can get things done quicker but I would think it will be to a - generally - lower standard. Hell, maybe that's the reason I can't find a single tradesman who can fix / fit or make something right. They just "get it done". If I do have people in doing things (when I don't have time to do it) I usually have to fix it afterwards or re-do it anwyway so I avoid it at all costs. "Prepare for all scenarios but never be too quick to determine which one it may be" Everything is unpredictable, even what you may encounter going to the supermarket. Regardless of that. It just seems crazy that when some things are so obviously not black and white people still manage to view it in that manner (which is completely confusing to me). It is as if they need a definite clean cut answer to back up, as if anything more is too much thought or effort or not stable enough for them to pitch on.

[@ThalassTKynn]

The thing to take away from all this is that the important thing is that a little girl or boy in sweden can choose the path in life they are best suited for even if it's "non traditional", even if it turns out to be unusual.

[@piotr78]

No the thing to take away is that 99% of them DON'T when they have that choice. Therefore it makes no sense to point at differences and call them a problem.

[@pseudonamed]

@@piotr78 it's really not at all 99%, lol.

[@piotr78]

@@pseudonamed It's actually the highest in Scandinavian countries. Look it up

[@pseudonamed]

@@piotr78 "highest" doesn't mean "99%", lol.

[@pseudonamed]

for example, about 25% of engineers in Sweden are women, not 1%. So why should we stop 1/4 of engineers from doing what they love just because they are women?

[@bcn1gh7h4wk]

"Humans are weird", says the beigeman stading in front a Dredd shield with his name on it. "AE! AM! DAH LLOYD!!!" >:/

[@tyanellewin3416]

With a huge pencil in the background

[@JudgeLazar]

Judge Lloyd. Awesome plaque. Very jealous.

[@Direkin]

Yeah, very nice. I wonder where he got it from.

[@BaronVonQuiply]

@@Direkin The same place that issued the gun, I assume.

[@choronos]

Thank you for this comment. I thought it looked like a Judge shield but I wasn't 100%, and no one was going to see my comment asking about it after 5 days have past. PS- There is going to be a TV series possibly starring the man with the best scowl in Hollywood himself: Karl Urban. He's said that if they can write a compelling script with characterization he can get behind, he's on board. Highly anticipated for me.

[@adm0iii]

*Tragic* *stories* are to *grief* as... *Thrilling* *rides* are to *physical fear,* and... *Comedy* is to *social failing,* and... *Horror movies* are to *fear of the unknown,* and... *Karaokes* are to *public shame,* and... etc. The first in each pair is a way to _safely_ learn how you can deal with the harmful effects of the second. Our social instincts lead us to explore the limits of our coping abilities in order to expand our coping abilities. Without this, as we matured and learned what dangers the wider world holds for us, we'd all tend to draw as far away as possible from all potential threats and live in under some rocks in the back of a cave, quivering in a fetal position.

[@daviddavidson9098]

Exercise to failure is to muscular strength... It's a good point. Antifragility is the concept. Systems which become stronger in response to stressors are very strong evolutionarily.

[@lukedogwalker]

Those who study military training regimes have referred to combat training with its loud noises and simulated peril as a form of behavioural innoculation against the possible confusion and paralysis induced by fear. Get your fear over with in training: you'll still experience it in real combat but will know how to function despite it. This, at least, is the theory!

[@Fingeroo]

I think that framework also explains the popularity of watching fail videos and other kinds of slapstick entertainment. Observing and remembering ways you could hurt yourself is rewarded.

[@HrRezpatex]

When you talked about being shy (around 20:00 in the video ) it reminded me of the woman that started to experiment with foxes in Russia in the 50`s. She separated the different foxes based on their behaviour, and only let the human friendly foxes breed. This she did generations after generations, and to day those foxes are almost as tame as common dogs, and that is only from the 50`s and up to now.. To me, this is another prove that a lot of behaviour goes from one generation to another. Thanks for another great video! :)

[@zendric3]

I feel like I just got beigepilled

[@Nero-ho6gt]

Ahh, the Beigepill. It's not quite a Red, but it is far from a Blue. Tread carefully fellow pillpoppers, you wouldn't want to over dose on Blackpills… lest you be left with no other choice than the dreaded Ironpill!

[@jonmichael6746]

lololol! Beigepilled needs to be a thing

[@VargVikernes1488]

The eternal Anglo pill

[@charjl96]

It's definitely a thing now

[@GoblinKnightLeo]

The big problem with evopsych: we don't actually know all that much about how people lived in the Paleolithic period. It's not nothing, granted, but it's lacking. As such, much of evopsych is based on reasonably justified assumptions, but nearly as much is based on conjecture, thought experiments, and deductive reasoning. None of which invalidates it, not by any stretch, but it doesn't have a much more solid foundation than psychology generally. That said, to my knowledge, the best evidence we have from genetic research is that much, much more of what makes us who we are (IQ, temperament, even moral reasoning to an extent) has a significant genetic basis than people are comfortable with - for exactly the reasons you give: the history of ideas. As you say: truth matters more than discomfort or history.

[@matthewantonello5029]

but you dont need to know how they lived in the paleolithic period beyond the basics. What sort of predators were relevant, what sort of dwellings did they have, what sort of food did they eat etc. What happened in any given period is less important than the evolutionary pressures over very very long stretches of time

[@paulpeterson4216]

@@matthewantonello5029 Actually, yes you do. A modern person's conjectures about what pressures were felt by paleolithic people could easily be wildly wrong, and likely are, because we don't know nearly enough about their cultures or behaviors. As an example, for centuries we have believed that prehistoric man lived in a "barter" economy. because that was how 18th, 19th and 20th century behaviorists thought people would have lived, whereas, now, we think that he (and she) lived in what is described as a "gift" economy which was much more (dare I say...dare. dare) communistic. The false assumption (assuming that modern thought on the matter does not switch back) led to huge misapprehensions about what sorts of evolutionary pressures those people felt. Evolutionary Psych is a very, very loose field that is approximately as fertile ground for imported biases as eugenics was.

[@MrCattlehunter]

Bigger problem is the 'built for the stoneage' hypothesis, that pretends humans haven't had significant genetic change over the last few tens of or even few thousand years, which is ironically an appeal to the loathed tabula rasa - that is, once humans evolved the capacity for cultural evolution, there was no longer any need for genetic evolution. But actually, the two reinforce each other; genes shaping culture shaping genes, even more rapidly than in a state of nature. So we know that e.g. the spread of agriculture correlates with the spread of the genes of the people who first started doing it. So it wasn't that the idea of agriculture spread out from, say, the middle east to europe, but that the people doing agriculture in those regions slowly migrated everywhere else, which suggests that the people they were supplanting didn't have the genes to do whatever it is you need to function as a settled, agricultural society. Which was probably something less obvious than not understanding how to take care of crops. It might've been something more in the area of how to keep such large numbers of people working together peacefully towards one goal over long periods. This spread of agriculture also correlates with the appearance of more spiritual artifacts, so it might be the agriculturalists were more religious than the people they replaced; this increased religiosity serving as a powerful glue to keep these groups unified and workings towards the same goal over generations. Or maybe it was something else. Evolutionary explanations for strange behaviours are rarely the first ones you can think of, and we often incorrectly attribute effects to causes that have nothing to do with each other (but sound compelling) and vice versa.

[@ZioStalin]

@@MrCattlehunter Right now I think the adaptive pressure on humans is diminishing. We can fix the results of an increasing number of genetic flaws (e.g. bad sight, bad mobility etc.) and those are not selection traits any more, so the genetic pool of the human specie is accumulating more diversity, at the expense of the average adeptness to the natural environment without the help of a complex society. It's the opposite of a bottle neck, and it's the effect of technological advancement. So one can say we stopped evolving, since evolution (selection, differentiation) is what happens during bottleneck phases, when the diversity generated during the easier times is screened and selected according to the parameters of the changing environment. The problem with this is that we are increasingly dependent on a complex society to live, and few of us would be able to even survive if this enormous globally interconnected system (->e.g. the parts needed for assembling a car come from all corners of the world) failed abruptly for any reason. If - say - an unpredictable period of strong solar instability were to wipe all satellites from the sky, and cook all complex electronics from one day to the next, we'd be pretty much all fucked, except for people who still live in very underdeveloped regions. A nuclear war could have the same "tabula rasa" effect, and I fear we wouldn't have good chances of rebuilding, for a lack of "Stone Age - rated" individuals. In the end, while the advancement of technology provides a solution to our most basic needs, it also opens up a whole new world of possibilities for even greater dangers. Cavemen who lived in small communities didn't have to fear criminality; as soon as we lived in cities, this once non existent threat emerged. Bushmen who lived in tents and huts didn't really care about seismic activity, but as soon as stone masonry and architecture were part of our society and culture, earthquakes became an issue. Every step forward alleviates some of the hardship of life but comes at the price of some increase in dependence on society, and risk, in one form or another.

[@p_serdiuk]

A lot of evopsych's assumptions can be confirmed by studying modern-day apes and humans. And the important bit is, those studies are factual. Facts don't change with re-interpretation.

[@MultiMaikimaik]

"Perhaps i should make a numbered series of 'pot-luck video rambles' in which I string together as many widely disparate topics as possible." Then you'd be VSauce.. :D

[@rattacatt6779]

this guy ought to make a podcast

[@Traderjoe]

If you saw someone place their hand on a stove and they shriek in agony and recoil and grasp their hand and seek help, you do not have to then touch the stove the same way to verify that it is hot.

[@morningstar9233]

I wished you'd told me that before!

[@hazzmati]

your point

[@sleepy314]

Actually, you do. It could be a scam. Or you could look for fresh seared palm. But you can act immediately as if the stove were hot.

[@seabee888]

What you described is witnessing PHYSICAL pain, and deducing what caused it and how to avoid it, thus saving yourself from potential injury. Lindybeige however talked about EMOTIONAL pain, which at first glance seems to serve no real purpose.

[@cityandsuburb]

Do you have a Phd in stating the fuckin' obvious.....?!

[@MatthewsPersonal]

woohoo! hes revisiting evolutionary psychology again! I need more of "built for the stone age"!!

[@patriciusvunkempen102]

this is not conclusive, as in the stoneage humans had no cattle to milk yet many europeans have genes allowing for milk consumption in the adult age, therefore acutly evolution ocurred after the stone age. also evolution can't stop it literaly can't

[@1lobster]

Speaking of evolutionary sociology! Look up Jordan Peterson! He is cool!

[@gnarlestongnu637]

@@patriciusvunkempen102 If we are no longer subject to environmental pressures we do. Now all we need to do is decide what counts as an environmental pressure...

[@grahamstewart2968]

@@gnarlestongnu637 Sure, but other people count as environmental pressures.

[@thomascrabtree]

@@grahamstewart2968 Society in general would be an environmental pressure but not other people directly, otherwise the same could apply to other animals. It's fairly irrelevant in terms of evolutionary pressure compared to everything that came before, human nature etc.

[@lifeforce99]

New title: How evolutionary psychology is really a science, really, it is!

[@Ghryst]

hmmm.. you should probably take Poes Law into account when communicating with text containing exaggerated syntax.

[@lifeforce99]

@@Ghryst nope, this is the comments section of KZbin, feel free to project your world view on others words.

[@singingphysics9416]

One of my favourite ever lindybeige videos

[@Falltangle]

it's great that you keep making videos like this, can't wait to see what content you make in 2019!

[@underpowerjet]

Yea! First Lindybeige video after subscribing to the channel :D

[@farawaywayfarer7685]

Welcome my fellow, I hope you’ll enjoy your stay

[@garrag3926]

Hello to you! 👋

[@mezzmetronic]

I've only just found this channel the other day, and already I've watched so many of your videos. It takes a great deal of character and passion to present a topic in a one-take, lecture style fashion and still keep it so entertaining! I'm a 27 year old man from Illinois in the USA; hope you see this so you know we across the pond appreciate you and love you!

[@misssarahashplant31]

I'm glad Joe Biden won and shut up the MAGA crowd. What an irritating group of people they are! Dear oh dear!

[@SimeonDotkov]

Love your videos, mate! Will take me a while to watch everything, but I do believe it will be worth it! ^_^

[@geekymoth2405]

In the ending section where he talked about anxiety it reminded me of the way flock of birds behave. If one bird gets anxious, the whole flock gets up and flies to the safety. The right amount of anxious birds in the flock keeps the whole flock alive. Of course it wouldn't work if every bird was super anxious, they wouldn't have time to eat. Anyway a nice video, again :)

[@orderofazarath7609]

When humanity grows infertile because of the great curses plus ;(

[@JustGrowingUp84]

That's a very silly pun, but I loved it, it made me laugh out loud, thank you for that.

[@orderofazarath7609]

[@melanchthonphilip6404]

With every video I watch here, the more I'm amazed at the breadth of subjects you talk about that coincide with interests of my own, with the most delightful enlightening. Yay Lindybeige!!

[@leahcimolrac1477]

You bastard... you're becoming my current favorite KZbin channel and now I have to subscribe and watch several hours of your content

[@AURORA08A]

And just like that, the good Lloyd's Patreon was mobbed by a horde of ideological automatons.

[@TheRevWillNotBeTelevised]

I think that happened a long time ago. Did you not see the climate change denial video?

[@AURORA08A]

@@TheRevWillNotBeTelevised i did. I would love to see someone knowledgeable seriously address Lloyds very sensible points. But mostly i didn't want to mention it in case it would encourage the almost inevitable dogpiling. I hope that Lloyds channel is something like the youtube equivalent of 'the Shire', where slightly parochial, but inquisitive and civilised folk can lead a good and pleasant life while the more embittered armies of ideological conflict don't deign to look. This will of course last only so long, until the the general conflagration intrudes. At which point i fully expect Lloyd to arise as an indignantly affronted hobbit of great stature, to smite the armies of darkness in his own genteel way, before returning to his chosen lindyhop and antiquarianism. Despite the distaste he might feel for such crude conflict, I am quite sure he will not duck

[@midshipman8654]

koopification I do not agree with all of his points, but he is often insightful. Anyways, I don’t think he had a patron or even that many subscribers when he made the climate change video.

[@alapikomamalolonui6424]

@@AURORA08A Our great indignant furry footed fellow will find and return the ring of ideological circular thinking and echo chamber indoctrination into the magma chamber of the intellectual Mount Doom, and fail to chuck it in at the last moment, only to have it snatched by the Gollum of goofiness who thereupon fumble footedly flounces, in a thoroughly unintentional Lindyhop imitation, over the inexplicable "stone lip" and down into the roiling molten rock, thus freeing all those suffering from enslavement by the current intellectual Sauronians (!?) so as to thenceforth enjoy, without irony or bad breath, the aforesaid goofiness of the likes of Lingybeige, thus making the world a better place on which to flounce around in that unintentional Lindyhop sort of way that comes naturally when we are pleased by simple wonder as our furry footed fellow, and apparent savior, is.

[@andrewmalcolm3209]

@@AURORA08A Haha that was one of the most well worded and satisfying KZbin comments I've read in a while, and I completely agree. His channel is a nice, quiet escape from the political rubbish that seems to be everywhere on KZbin nowadays.

[@greatafricanhornedfrog2954]

Judge Lloyd smashing frenchies is possibly my favorite thing on the internets.

[@jeffreymcinnes2458]

You post a lot of good work Lloyd. This is probably the best

[@Vazlist]

Your digressions within digressions are one of the things I love about you, Lloyd :D

[@chirongodemperorof4127]

Rest in peace the scholar's cradle.

[@The1wsx10]

i thought it was great. not only because of the joke. it also makes the whole great courses plus thing less theoretical seeing some footage from it

[@admiralgoodboy]

You could say everyone is so weird that weird is normal

[@PongoXBongo]

True. Wind the evolutionary clock all the way back and we were all the same (maybe not technically, but essentially). It was literally the appearance of a couple of weirdos that led to the diversity of life we see now. ;)

[@perfectdawnn6714]

Weird is only that of which is out of the norm. Weird is subjective, normal is subjective, it’s all bonkers.

[@kudosbudo]

Admiral. i perfer to ask "What is normal?"

[@admiralgoodboy]

kudosbudo normal is me, for im a dog in her majestys navy

[@matouspolauf765]

I saw your; lets call it firsts; and i love that, simple and explaining. Nice work!

[@ccityplanner1217]

I am autistic & grief is very dysfunctional for me. I grieve for the strangest things, from old railway rolling stock to road junction layouts. Right now I am grieving for specifically the Sheffield branch of John Lewis (I don't even live in Yorkshire). Yet at the same time other people's grief doesn't transfer over to me.

[@Dudemon-1]

So glad to see you back doing Evolutionary Psychology videos!!

[@bobsmith1278]

So we can blame evolution for why I piss in the sink

[@jsbrads1]

That’s determinism, not evolution.

[@view1st]

@@jsbrads1 : no, it's just downright weird.

[@bobsmith1278]

Just imagine what I do to shower trays

[@Attila8489]

Interesting stuff. I could listen to you for hours. Thank you!

[@juanignaciogarrorodriguez8264]

Lindybeige i really loved this video :). Ive been subbed to your channel for about a year now after I discovered your channel through the fire arrows video. At first it was difficult for me to relate to your content but this video offered me some insight into human behavior. In fact, I might have just suffered a revelation because of it. That maybe shyness and anxiety are genetical traits and that it’s completely ok to be like that. Thankfully I don’t really consider myself to be shy or anxious, or at least not more than the latter, but anyway I never considered that perspective. I loved your examples of nature and nurture. I believe they perfectly fit the concept and explain it flawlessly. I’ve become much more of a fan now :) see you in the next video.

[@MeM_UK]

A hundred is 10 to the 2, a thousand is 10 to the 3, a myriad is 10 to the 4.

[@The1wsx10]

^

[@ajnasreddin]

en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/myriad A countless or extremely great number of people or things.

[@TheMrjohannes1995]

@@ajnasreddin But it is still Ancient Greek word for 10.000

[@ajnasreddin]

@@TheMrjohannes1995 it sounded like he was speaking English to me. At no time in the video did i have to say, "That's Greek to me."

[@TheMrjohannes1995]

@@ajnasreddin it is like Allah Snakbar meens that u are gay here in Denmark. But in Allah land it means "God is Great"

[@acerockman3520]

7:41 You’re correct to say that kibbutzim is the plural of kibbutz

[@shariklein5883]

They still exist today but popularity has waned.

[@MiaogisTeas]

06:04 I … I think I love you 🥰 Great stuff as always. Slowly working my way back through your content

[@somerandomname7098]

What you said about grief reminded me of something I read about how a hit in the male genitals hurts as much as it does is for evolutionary purposes, just to prevent you to break your testicles and with that loose your fertility

[@DoomDwarf_347]

When Lloyd was 14, his best friend fell over a cliff and died

[@user-rb4wu7bl5t]

This comment section cannot get anymore better than this

[@Captain_Wet_Beard]

But what if it do? Luminerty confirmed

[@gillesheirbaut4902]

I do love a good ramble, subscribed instantaneously.

[@Watchdog505]

Why has it taken me over year to actually watch this?! Excellent video Lloyd, extremely informative.

[@TheNiennaTasartir]

You don't cry during Boromir death? WHAT'S WRONG??

[@_Fornad]

"They will look for his coming from the White Tower. but he will not return." *weeps*

[@Survivethejive]

Evolutionary psychology is a fascinating discipline which shall yield valuable knowledge of our species. Thanks Lloyd for bringing it to people’s attention.

[@Qsdd0]

Yes, but as opposed to Lindy, the criticism of the use of these ideas is absolutely valid when it comes to you given your fascistoid videos.

[@InhabitantOfOddworld]

VERY INDO-EUROPEAN

[@InhabitantOfOddworld]

@@Qsdd0 "Reeee fascist!" kzbin.info/www/bejne/hYukeHlogMmqi9E

[@Qsdd0]

Helder Monteiro What that euphemism stands for definetly is. Also given your own propensity to be dominated by strongmen, you shouldn't be calling anyone cucks.

[@Qsdd0]

Before any alt-righters straw man this to oblivion: I don't have a problem with the interest in paganism, EvoPsy, genetics and what have you. The problem is the adoration for Evola, and the obvious association with clear fascist youtubers like The Golden One, yet being obtuse about your own affiliation with fascism in your videos.

[@willshons5402]

I would absolutely love to have a university course entirely taught by Lindybeige.

[@beckihayes220]

Count me in

[@Dick_Gozinya]

16:00 I know it's been about 2 1/2 years, but, ahhhhh........has anybody pointed out that 10 to the 3rd is not 100, nor is 10 to the 4rth 1,000?

[@goodsous]

Yeah I just noticed that too...

[@Joe___R]

Another informative yet entertaining video, I am just surprised you basically explained empathy and the reason we have it and why it's a good thing without using actually saying empathy.

[@LuaanTi]

@Helder Monteiro Not really; that just means you're not empathetic _enough_ . Empathy isn't just about feeling other people's pain - it's also telling real pain from fake pain, judging character etc. That said, there's no such thing as universal benefit or universal weakness of course - all adaptations need to be considered in context. It's a lot harder for humans to be empathetic to complete strangers than to members of their tribe; on the other hand, people readily empathise with children, even of other species (especially mammalian)! Pretty much anything can be exploited. That's probably how we developed such oversized brains in the first place - no challenge in our ancestral environment was even remotely comparable to other people's brains :D

[@steyn1775]

BUT WHAT ABOUT DRAGONS?!?!?!

[@calebfail2116]

“Oh, you just got married?”

[@steyn1775]

@@calebfail2116 wat

[@shkvorrel9660]

How did a Shadiversity comment end up under this video????

[@steyn1775]

@@shkvorrel9660 cuz this is KZbin after all lol

[@calebfail2116]

It’s from his T shirt promo. “Oh, you just got married? BUT WHAT ABOUT DRAGONS?!?”

[@philiplaurell1163]

Great content, very well presented. Thank you.

[@Reallyownd]

Wow, your interesting trivia made me not skip the ad, well done!

[@jhonhammond4701]

A point on your film thing. When I watch the 1930s all quiet on the western front I ended up in tears after Paul died at the very end, but that could be cause you stick with him for so long.

[@charleslindeman2169]

Fuckin' spoilers mate! How dare you ruin a movie I was never going to watch!

[@jhonhammond4701]

Charles Lindeman It’s over 80 years old