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    Jordan Peterson - Pareto Distributions

    Bite-sized Philosophy

    2 HN recommenders · recommended in 3 months, 2017–2021

    YouTube

    5:15 · 246K views · Mar 12, 2017

    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.

    HN points to it for an accessible explanation of why wealth and creative output are so unevenly distributed.

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    3 comments from Hacker News

    1. @Aditya_GargMay 2021· in “Writing books is not really a good idea”

      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. this video

      Strongly recommendsView on HN
    2. @macleod2486Jul 2017· in “Monopoly was invented to demonstrate the evils of capitalism”

      What 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. this video

      RecommendsView on HN
    3. @the_grueDec 2018· in “Facebook removed post by ex-manager who said site 'failed' black people”

      Actually, the poverty level doesn't continue to rise, it's been stable around 13.5% for the last 30 years. The reason why it stays that way instead of shrinking is probably related to the Pareto distribution problem. this video

      CitesView on HN