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Introduction Many people are familiar with the saying ‘Don’t cast pearls among the swine’. We asked our resident AI philosophers to consider this saying and to provide some insights we can use during these exponentially accelerating and disruptive times.  Origins This saying can be traced to Matthew 7:6 and this text: In the King James Version of the Bible the text reads: Give not that which is holy unto the dogs, neither cast ye your pearls before swine, lest they trample them under their feet, and turn again and rend you. The World English Bible translates the passage as: Don't...

In this video Dr. Jordan Peterson talks big five (big 5) personality traits, extraversion and introversion.Listen to how he dives into this psychology topic! Jordan Peterson Highlights 2021  

Be aware and look after yourself and your family! People who manipulate others attack their mental and emotional state to get what they want. These people do not understand the concept of boundaries, they are relentless in their pursuit of what they want and they have no regard for who will get hurt along the way. 

        Full lecture "2017 Personality 18: Biology & Traits: Openness/Intelligence/Creativity I", quoted under fair use:

One of the major thought experiments in epistemology (the field of philosophy that deals with knowledge) is what is known as “The Cow in the Field.” The Cow in the Field was first used by Edmund Gettier as a criticism of the popular definition of knowledge as “justified true belief”—that is, that something becomes knowledge when a person believes it; it is factually true; and they have a verifiable justification for their belief. In the experiment, the farmer’s belief that the cow was there was justified by the testimony of the milkman and his own verification of a black and...