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153. Rational Optimism | Matt Ridley

The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast

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The Morality That Emerges From Games

In his last book, i wrote about the morality that emerges from games? There's a neuro scientist whom you might be familiar with, panksep, who studied rat behavior in games. And he showed that if you pair two male juvenile rats together, the one with the ten per cent body weight advantage will pin the other almost a hundred per cent of the time. So what happens is that you get an emergent morality, which is not the ability to win any given game, but the ability to repeatedly play a multitude of games. That's very much like acting in aso then i'm a collective that stretches across time as an individual, and i have to act in the best

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