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728: Maria Konnikova | The Confidence Game
The Jordan Harbinger Show
What Kind of People Become Conmen?
Psychopaths are a really interesting subset of the population because they've basically co evolved to take advantage of the fact that everyone else isn't a psychopath. As long as there are very few of them, they can take advantage and end up doing much better than everyone else. Machiavellianism is exactly what it sounds like. It comes from machiavelli, someone who is really good at persuading and bending people to his own will. And those are the so called dark triad of traits. I won't speculate on what that means about humanity.
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