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Jordan Peterson - Pareto Distributions
A short clip of Jordan Peterson explaining Pareto distributions, using Soviet farm collectivization and the resulting famine as context. It also covers how outcomes concentrate in a few people.
Why HN readers recommended it
HN points to it for an accessible explanation of why wealth and creative output are so unevenly distributed.
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Video & recommendation details
- Creator / channel
- Bite-sized Philosophy
- Topic
- pareto distributions
- Format
- lecture
- Level
- general
- HN recommenders in dataset
- 2
- HN mentions in dataset
- 3
- Recommendation years in dataset
- 2017–2021
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From the original HN conversations
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This is expected and falls under the Pareto distribution. All human creative endeavors follow this distribution (movies/ tv shows/ music) at different scales. Even some weird ones like most commonly used words follow this. Jordan Peterson has an excellent lecture on describing this phenomenon. [VIDEO]
Aditya_Garg on Hacker News · 2021-05
In Writing books is not really a good ideaWhat she didn't realize what she ended up demonstrating was the reality of pareto distributions. Dr. Jordan Peterson does a good detailing of this phenomenon. [VIDEO]
macleod2486 on Hacker News · 2017-07
In Monopoly was invented to demonstrate the evils of capitalism
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