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Unresolvable Vinod Khosla Factual 9 Sep 2012 At Sun Microsystems, the founders split founder equity evenly, each receiving single-digit percentages, despite their different roles, and it worked out well. Vinod Khosla · Factual · 9 Sep 2012 Their own work or organisation
Not checkable Vinod Khosla Not checkable 9 Sep 2012 In fact, caring for employees, while being objective and critically honest about your issues/people, will attract and retain the right… Vinod Khosla · Not checkable · 9 Sep 2012
Not checkable Vinod Khosla Not checkable 9 Sep 2012 Tolerance for sloppiness and “good enough” mediocrity in anything critical is a killer. Vinod Khosla · Not checkable · 9 Sep 2012
Not checkable Vinod Khosla Not checkable 9 Sep 2012 Good entrepreneurs driving bold new visions will often do both. Vinod Khosla · Not checkable · 9 Sep 2012
Not checkable Vinod Khosla Not checkable 9 Sep 2012 Austen’s article draws a caricature of Jobs and puts forth a series of false choices. Vinod Khosla · Not checkable · 9 Sep 2012
Not checkable Vinod Khosla Not checkable 9 Sep 2012 This is especially true if you critique the work, not the people. Vinod Khosla · Not checkable · 9 Sep 2012
Not checkable Vinod Khosla Not checkable 9 Sep 2012 I prefer brutal honesty to hypocritical politeness. Vinod Khosla · Not checkable · 9 Sep 2012
Not checkable Vinod Khosla Not checkable 9 Sep 2012 It’s a false choice, and the world is better off because of Steve Jobs. Vinod Khosla · Not checkable · 9 Sep 2012
Not checkable Vinod Khosla Not checkable 9 Sep 2012 On the contrary, people respond well to challenging but fair environments. Vinod Khosla · Not checkable · 9 Sep 2012
Not checkable Steven Pinker Not checkable 18 Jun 2012 Instead it is a loose metaphor, more like the struggle among kinds of tires or telephones. Steven Pinker · Not checkable · 18 Jun 2012
Not researched Steven Pinker Factual 18 Jun 2012 Voluntary martyrdom and suicide missions have not long been the norm in human conflict, according to Pinker's reading of the history of organized violence. Steven Pinker · Factual · 18 Jun 2012 Philosophy, ethics and society
Not checkable Steven Pinker Not checkable 18 Jun 2012 If humans were selected to benefit their groups at the expense of themselves, then self-sacrificial acts should be deliberate, spontaneous… Steven Pinker · Not checkable · 18 Jun 2012
Not checkable Steven Pinker Not checkable 18 Jun 2012 I am often asked whether I agree with the new group selectionists, and the questioners are always surprised when I say I do not. Steven Pinker · Not checkable · 18 Jun 2012
Not checkable Steven Pinker Not checkable 18 Jun 2012 Wilson's dictum that groups of altruistic individuals beat groups of selfish individuals is true only if one classifies slaves, serfs… Steven Pinker · Not checkable · 18 Jun 2012
Not researched Steven Pinker Factual 18 Jun 2012 No one claims that monotheistic religions are more fission-prone than polytheistic ones, resulting in numerically more monotheistic belief systems among the thousands on earth. Steven Pinker · Factual · 18 Jun 2012 Philosophy, ethics and society
Mostly true Steven Pinker Factual 18 Jun 2012 The first complex states depended on brutal coercion rather than spontaneous cooperation. Steven Pinker · Factual · 18 Jun 2012 Philosophy, ethics and society
Not researched Steven Pinker Citation 18 Jun 2012 Scott Atran, Larry Sugiyama, Valerie Hudson, Jessica Stern and Bradley Thayer documented that suicide terrorists are generally recruited from men with poor reproductive prospects. Steven Pinker · Citation · 18 Jun 2012 Philosophy, ethics and society
Resolved true Steven Pinker Factual 18 Jun 2012 When attacks involve lethal risks, men in tribal societies tend to desert or avoid fighting unless shamed or physically punished, as in Mathew and Boyd's study of Turkana warfare. Steven Pinker · Factual · 18 Jun 2012 Philosophy, ethics and society
Not researched Steven Pinker Factual 18 Jun 2012 Most of the groupwide traits that group selectionists try to explain are cultural rather than genetic. Steven Pinker · Factual · 18 Jun 2012 Philosophy, ethics and society
Not checkable Steven Pinker Not checkable 18 Jun 2012 None of this prevents us from seeking to understand the evolution of social and moral intuitions, nor the dynamics of populations and… Steven Pinker · Not checkable · 18 Jun 2012
Not researched Steven Pinker Factual 18 Jun 2012 Subsequent experiments showed most behavior in public goods and similar games can be explained by expectation of reciprocity or concern with reputation. Steven Pinker · Factual · 18 Jun 2012 Science and research methods
Not researched Steven Pinker Factual 18 Jun 2012 No organism, sexual or asexual, can pass on to its offspring traits it acquired during its lifetime. Steven Pinker · Factual · 18 Jun 2012 Science and research methods
Mixed Steven Pinker Factual 18 Jun 2012 Competition among modern states has not been an impetus for altruistic cooperation. Steven Pinker · Factual · 18 Jun 2012 Philosophy, ethics and society
Mixed Steven Pinker Factual 18 Jun 2012 People willingly confer large benefits on strangers at small cost to themselves, because it may start a mutually beneficial long-term relationship. Steven Pinker · Factual · 18 Jun 2012 Philosophy, ethics and society
Not researched Steven Pinker Factual 18 Jun 2012 Humans use language to learn others' reputations for reciprocating or exploiting, not only direct experience. Steven Pinker · Factual · 18 Jun 2012 Philosophy, ethics and society
Not checkable Steven Pinker Not checkable 18 Jun 2012 Once again, a vast amount of human cooperation is elegantly explained by this theory. Steven Pinker · Not checkable · 18 Jun 2012
Not checkable Steven Pinker Not checkable 18 Jun 2012 Group welfare would seem to work according to the rule "From each according to his ability, to each according to his need." Steven Pinker · Not checkable · 18 Jun 2012
Not researched Steven Pinker Factual 18 Jun 2012 Sexually reproducing organisms do not literally replicate themselves, because their offspring are composites of themselves and their mates rather than clones. Steven Pinker · Factual · 18 Jun 2012 Science and research methods
Unresolvable Steven Pinker Factual 18 Jun 2012 Human loyalty is instinctively triggered by those likely to share genes and is extended to others through manipulations. Steven Pinker · Factual · 18 Jun 2012 Philosophy, ethics and society
Not checkable Steven Pinker Not checkable 18 Jun 2012 What's satisfying about the theory is that it is so mechanistic. Steven Pinker · Not checkable · 18 Jun 2012
Not checkable Steven Pinker Not checkable 18 Jun 2012 Group selection, in contrast, fails to predict that human altruism should be driven by moralistic emotions and reputation management, since… Steven Pinker · Not checkable · 18 Jun 2012
Not checkable Steven Pinker Not checkable 18 Jun 2012 Nonetheless, it's the genes themselves that are replicated over generations and are thus the targets of selection and the ultimate… Steven Pinker · Not checkable · 18 Jun 2012
Not checkable Steven Pinker Not checkable 18 Jun 2012 the notion of "group selection" is far more likely to confuse than to enlighten Steven Pinker · Not checkable · 18 Jun 2012
Not checkable Steven Pinker Not checkable 18 Jun 2012 The more carefully you think about group selection, the less sense it makes, and the more poorly it fits the facts of human psychology and… Steven Pinker · Not checkable · 18 Jun 2012
Not checkable Steven Pinker Not checkable 18 Jun 2012 For this reason the term "group selection" adds little to what we have always called "history." Steven Pinker · Not checkable · 18 Jun 2012
Not researched Steven Pinker Factual 18 Jun 2012 Daniel Dennett designated natural selection as "the best idea that anyone ever had." Steven Pinker · Factual · 18 Jun 2012 Philosophy, ethics and society
Not checkable Steven Pinker Not checkable 18 Jun 2012 None of this wasteful ritualizing and mythologizing would be necessary if "the group" were an elementary cognitive intuition which… Steven Pinker · Not checkable · 18 Jun 2012
Not checkable Steven Pinker Not checkable 18 Jun 2012 The reproductive success of humans undoubtedly depends in part on the fate of their groups. Steven Pinker · Not checkable · 18 Jun 2012
Resolved true Steven Pinker Factual 18 Jun 2012 Pinker said he has argued that the concept of group selection has no useful role to play in psychology or social science. Steven Pinker · Factual · 18 Jun 2012 Their own work or organisation
Not checkable Steven Pinker Not checkable 18 Jun 2012 A natural conclusion is that this shows that humans are not a group-selected adaptation which capitalizes on opportunities to make… Steven Pinker · Not checkable · 18 Jun 2012
Not checkable Steven Pinker Not checkable 18 Jun 2012 Except in the theoretically possible but empirically unlikely circumstance in which groups bud off new groups faster than their members… Steven Pinker · Not checkable · 18 Jun 2012
Not checkable Steven Pinker Not checkable 18 Jun 2012 That is hardly a gene that could be selected! Steven Pinker · Not checkable · 18 Jun 2012
Not checkable Steven Pinker Not checkable 18 Jun 2012 The mutations are not random. Steven Pinker · Not checkable · 18 Jun 2012
Not checkable Steven Pinker Not checkable 18 Jun 2012 People invoke it to refer to many distinct phenomena, so casual users may literally not know what they are talking about. Steven Pinker · Not checkable · 18 Jun 2012
Not checkable Steven Pinker Not checkable 18 Jun 2012 To use the term in these senses is positively confusing, and writers would be better off referring to whichever phenomenon they have in… Steven Pinker · Not checkable · 18 Jun 2012
Mostly true Steven Pinker Factual 18 Jun 2012 Individual bodies are not passed down through generations the way genes are. Steven Pinker · Factual · 18 Jun 2012 Science and research methods
Mixed Steven Pinker Factual 18 Jun 2012 In tribal warfare among non-state societies, men do not regularly take high lethal risks for the group; pitched battles have few casualties and real combat is by raids and ambushes. Steven Pinker · Factual · 18 Jun 2012 Philosophy, ethics and society
Not checkable Steven Pinker Not checkable 18 Jun 2012 Since the gene-centered theory of insect eusociality cannot apply to humans, perhaps it is unnecessary to explain bees either. Steven Pinker · Not checkable · 18 Jun 2012
Not checkable Steven Pinker Not checkable 18 Jun 2012 Many questionable claims are packed into the clustering of inherent virtue, human moral intuitions, group-benefiting self-sacrifice, and… Steven Pinker · Not checkable · 18 Jun 2012
Not researched Steven Pinker Factual 18 Jun 2012 The soldiers did not act like soldier ants willingly marching off to doom for the group's benefit, but were ordered into battle, goaded on and threatened with execution for desertion. Steven Pinker · Factual · 18 Jun 2012 Philosophy, ethics and society
Not checkable Steven Pinker Not checkable 18 Jun 2012 it is dubious both in theory (since it is hard to see how it could evolve given the built-in advantage of protecting the self and one's… Steven Pinker · Not checkable · 18 Jun 2012
Not researched Steven Pinker Factual 18 Jun 2012 Humans' recognition of kin depends on environmental cues that other humans can manipulate. Steven Pinker · Factual · 18 Jun 2012 Science and research methods
Not checkable Steven Pinker Not checkable 18 Jun 2012 But the dichotomy ignores another possibility: that an individual can be virtuous by benefiting other individuals Steven Pinker · Not checkable · 18 Jun 2012
Not checkable Steven Pinker Not checkable 18 Jun 2012 It seems hard to believe that a small effect in one condition of a somewhat contrived psychology experiment would be sufficient reason to… Steven Pinker · Not checkable · 18 Jun 2012
Not checkable Steven Pinker Not checkable 18 Jun 2012 Conquerors, leaders, elites, visionaries, social entrepreneurs, and other innovators use their highly nonrandom brains to figure out… Steven Pinker · Not checkable · 18 Jun 2012
Not checkable Steven Pinker Not checkable 18 Jun 2012 Nor is there any reason to believe that ants, bees, or termites have moralistic emotions such as sympathy, anger, and gratitude, or a… Steven Pinker · Not checkable · 18 Jun 2012
Not checkable Steven Pinker Not checkable 18 Jun 2012 If a person has innate traits that encourage him to contribute to the group's welfare and as a result contribute to his own welfare, group… Steven Pinker · Not checkable · 18 Jun 2012
Not researched Steven Pinker Factual 18 Jun 2012 Manipulations such as indoctrination are necessary to overcome a strong human inclination not to commit suicide for the group's benefit. Steven Pinker · Factual · 18 Jun 2012 Philosophy, ethics and society
Not checkable Steven Pinker Not checkable 18 Jun 2012 There's no need to complicate the theory of natural selection with a new "level of selection" in every case. Steven Pinker · Not checkable · 18 Jun 2012
Not researched Steven Pinker Factual 18 Jun 2012 Some mathematical models of "group selection" are really just individual selection in the context of groups. Steven Pinker · Factual · 18 Jun 2012 Science and research methods
Not researched Steven Pinker Factual 18 Jun 2012 In real societies, punishing free riders need not be costly to the punisher. Steven Pinker · Factual · 18 Jun 2012 Philosophy, ethics and society
Not checkable Steven Pinker Not checkable 18 Jun 2012 But what does "natural selection" add to the historian's commonplace that some groups have traits that cause them to grow more populous, or… Steven Pinker · Not checkable · 18 Jun 2012
Not checkable Steven Pinker Not checkable 18 Jun 2012 Nepotistic altruism in humans consists of feelings of warmth, solidarity, and tolerance toward those who are likely to be one's kin. Steven Pinker · Not checkable · 18 Jun 2012
Not researched Steven Pinker Factual 18 Jun 2012 The only empirical phenomenon directly adduced as support for group selection is a set of experimental games in which people seem to sacrifice their interests for a group. Steven Pinker · Factual · 18 Jun 2012 Science and research methods
Not researched Steven Pinker Factual 18 Jun 2012 Before becoming a group selectionist, Wilson rejected the idea that human altruism could be explained by looking to ants, and gave this verdict on the Marxist maxim: "Wonderful theory; wrong species." Steven Pinker · Factual · 18 Jun 2012 Philosophy, ethics and society
Not checkable Steven Pinker Not checkable 18 Jun 2012 It evolved because any genes that encouraged such feelings toward genetic relatives would be benefiting copies of themselves inside those… Steven Pinker · Not checkable · 18 Jun 2012
Not checkable Steven Pinker Not checkable 18 Jun 2012 But that would have nothing to do with its members' inherited psychology, in this case, their willingness to sacrifice themselves without… Steven Pinker · Not checkable · 18 Jun 2012
Not checkable Steven Pinker Not checkable 18 Jun 2012 The theory of natural selection applies most readily to genes because they have the right stuff to drive selection, namely making… Steven Pinker · Not checkable · 18 Jun 2012
Not researched Steven Pinker Factual 18 Jun 2012 Reciprocity, like nepotism, is driven by probabilistic cues rather than infallible knowledge. Steven Pinker · Factual · 18 Jun 2012 Philosophy, ethics and society
Not checkable Steven Pinker Not checkable 18 Jun 2012 A vast amount of human altruism can be explained in this way. Steven Pinker · Not checkable · 18 Jun 2012
Not checkable Steven Pinker Not checkable 18 Jun 2012 In every case I've seen, the three components that make natural selection so indispensable are absent. Steven Pinker · Not checkable · 18 Jun 2012
Not checkable Steven Pinker Not checkable 18 Jun 2012 Cities have more old buildings made of stone than of wood because of the process of edifice selection. Steven Pinker · Not checkable · 18 Jun 2012
Not researched Steven Pinker Factual 18 Jun 2012 Studies of contemporary suicide terrorists show special circumstances must be engineered to entice men into suicide attacks. Steven Pinker · Factual · 18 Jun 2012 Philosophy, ethics and society
Not checkable Steven Pinker Not checkable 18 Jun 2012 If that's what virtue consisted of, then fascism would be the ultimate virtuous ideology, and a commitment to human rights the ultimate… Steven Pinker · Not checkable · 18 Jun 2012
Not checkable Steven Pinker Not checkable 18 Jun 2012 If one is the unlucky victim of such manipulation or coercion by others, there's no need to call it altruism and search for an evolutionary… Steven Pinker · Not checkable · 18 Jun 2012
Not checkable Steven Pinker Not checkable 18 Jun 2012 But its explanatory power, it seems to me, is so distinctive and important that it should not be diluted by metaphorical, poetic, fuzzy, or… Steven Pinker · Not checkable · 18 Jun 2012
Not researched Steven Pinker Factual 18 Jun 2012 People feel gratitude toward helpers, anger toward exploiters, and contrition toward those they exploited if they depend on them for future cooperation. Steven Pinker · Factual · 18 Jun 2012 Philosophy, ethics and society
Not checkable Steven Pinker Not checkable 18 Jun 2012 My reading of the study of cooperation by psychologists and anthropologists, and of the study of group competition by historians and… Steven Pinker · Not checkable · 18 Jun 2012
Not checkable Steven Pinker Not checkable 18 Jun 2012 Because of these twists, it's a fallacy to think that the theory of reciprocal altruism implies that generosity is a sham, and that people… Steven Pinker · Not checkable · 18 Jun 2012
Not checkable Steven Pinker Not checkable 18 Jun 2012 The huge literature on the evolution of cooperation in humans has done quite well by applying the two gene-level explanations for altruism… Steven Pinker · Not checkable · 18 Jun 2012
Not checkable Steven Pinker Not checkable 18 Jun 2012 I don't think it makes sense to conceive of groups of organisms (in particular, human societies) as sitting at the top of a fractal… Steven Pinker · Not checkable · 18 Jun 2012
Not checkable Steven Pinker Not checkable 18 Jun 2012 It's more accurate to say that groups of individuals that are organized beat groups of selfish individuals. Steven Pinker · Not checkable · 18 Jun 2012
Not checkable Steven Pinker Not checkable 18 Jun 2012 The truly Darwinian mechanisms of high-fidelity replication, blind mutation, differential contribution of descendants to a population, and… Steven Pinker · Not checkable · 18 Jun 2012
Not checkable Peter Thiel Not checkable 15 Jun 2012 Suppose it’s just a small cabal of tech people that drives it. Peter Thiel · Not checkable · 15 Jun 2012
Not checkable Peter Thiel Not checkable 15 Jun 2012 That would be paddling way to far in advance of the wave. Peter Thiel · Not checkable · 15 Jun 2012
Not checkable Peter Thiel Not checkable 15 Jun 2012 That’s three different opinions on who makes the future: a top-down bottom-up combo, social opinion molders, and tribes. Peter Thiel · Not checkable · 15 Jun 2012
Not checkable Peter Thiel Not checkable 15 Jun 2012 By their nature, singular events are hard to teach or generalize about. Peter Thiel · Not checkable · 15 Jun 2012
Not checkable Peter Thiel Not checkable 15 Jun 2012 So do it. Peter Thiel · Not checkable · 15 Jun 2012
Not checkable Peter Thiel Not checkable 15 Jun 2012 So while we don’t know exactly when radical technology of the future will come to be, the timing does make a great deal of difference. Peter Thiel · Not checkable · 15 Jun 2012
Not checkable Peter Thiel Not checkable 15 Jun 2012 You are a statistic. Peter Thiel · Not checkable · 15 Jun 2012
Not checkable Peter Thiel Not checkable 15 Jun 2012 There are still many large white spaces on the map of human knowledge. Peter Thiel · Not checkable · 15 Jun 2012
Not checkable Peter Thiel Not checkable 15 Jun 2012 If we don’t take charge and usher in the future—if you don’t take charge of your life—there is the sense that no one else will. Peter Thiel · Not checkable · 15 Jun 2012
Not checkable Peter Thiel Not checkable 15 Jun 2012 You’re the best disguised Peter Thiel · Not checkable · 15 Jun 2012
Not checkable Peter Thiel Not checkable 15 Jun 2012 So go find a frontier and go for it. Peter Thiel · Not checkable · 15 Jun 2012
Not checkable Peter Thiel Not checkable 15 Jun 2012 You can go discover them. Peter Thiel · Not checkable · 15 Jun 2012
Not checkable Peter Thiel Not checkable 15 Jun 2012 Use your power to shape your own life and go and do new things. Peter Thiel · Not checkable · 15 Jun 2012
Not checkable Peter Thiel Not checkable 15 Jun 2012 There is a mini singularity whenever you start a company or make a key life decision. Peter Thiel · Not checkable · 15 Jun 2012
Not checkable Peter Thiel Not checkable 15 Jun 2012 No one was or should have been working on supersonic flight in the Middle Ages. Peter Thiel · Not checkable · 15 Jun 2012
Not checkable Peter Thiel Not checkable 15 Jun 2012 In a sense, the singularity is happening regardless of what individual people actually do to make it happen. Peter Thiel · Not checkable · 15 Jun 2012
Mostly false Peter Thiel Factual 15 Jun 2012 A Chinese man tried to launch a rocket into space in the 11th century. Peter Thiel · Factual · 15 Jun 2012 Technology
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Vinod Khosla

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“On the contrary, people respond well to challenging but fair environments.”

Vinod Khosla 9 September 2012 TechCrunch: Do You Need to be a Jerk to be a Successful Entrepreneur? (Khosla Ventures)

On the contrary, people respond well to challenging but fair environments.

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