Jordan Peterson - Pareto Distributions on HackerTube: recommended by 2 Hacker News commenters across 2 separate months, 2017–2021.
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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.
“Jordan Peterson has an excellent lecture on describing this phenomenon.”
3 Hacker News comments link this video. Each one links back to its thread.
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
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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
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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
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