Lex Fridman Podcast
#357 β Paul Conti: Narcissism, Sociopathy, Envy, and the Nature of Good and Evil
I'm not saying, hey, we shouldn't have racial slurs as if like, let's stop saying the words.
Lex Fridman Podcast
#357 β Paul Conti: Narcissism, Sociopathy, Envy, and the Nature of Good and Evil
I mean, the idea is the premise behind it, right?
Lex Fridman Podcast
#357 β Paul Conti: Narcissism, Sociopathy, Envy, and the Nature of Good and Evil
Like, you know, the prejudices.
Lex Fridman Podcast
#357 β Paul Conti: Narcissism, Sociopathy, Envy, and the Nature of Good and Evil
If we could eliminate the prejudice behind it.
Lex Fridman Podcast
#357 β Paul Conti: Narcissism, Sociopathy, Envy, and the Nature of Good and Evil
You know, I was struck, as I said, I do almost nothing about medicine.
Lex Fridman Podcast
#357 β Paul Conti: Narcissism, Sociopathy, Envy, and the Nature of Good and Evil
I get to medical school and start with anatomy.
Lex Fridman Podcast
#357 β Paul Conti: Narcissism, Sociopathy, Envy, and the Nature of Good and Evil
And it's remarkable to see, as the bodies are being dissected, that we're all humans.
Lex Fridman Podcast
#357 β Paul Conti: Narcissism, Sociopathy, Envy, and the Nature of Good and Evil
It doesn't matter any of these things on the outside.
Lex Fridman Podcast
#357 β Paul Conti: Narcissism, Sociopathy, Envy, and the Nature of Good and Evil
And that's true, not just in our bodies, but in our minds, the part of the person that's not there, because now we're trying to learn from the body.
Lex Fridman Podcast
#357 β Paul Conti: Narcissism, Sociopathy, Envy, and the Nature of Good and Evil
And it shows how...
Lex Fridman Podcast
#357 β Paul Conti: Narcissism, Sociopathy, Envy, and the Nature of Good and Evil
ridiculous it is if you think that we're 99 point how many nines, you know, percent all alike genetically.
Lex Fridman Podcast
#357 β Paul Conti: Narcissism, Sociopathy, Envy, and the Nature of Good and Evil
And by the way, it's only like take another 10th off and we're all orangutans, right?
Lex Fridman Podcast
#357 β Paul Conti: Narcissism, Sociopathy, Envy, and the Nature of Good and Evil
So, but somehow we have to see these differences between us, right?
Lex Fridman Podcast
#357 β Paul Conti: Narcissism, Sociopathy, Envy, and the Nature of Good and Evil
And where does that come from?
Lex Fridman Podcast
#357 β Paul Conti: Narcissism, Sociopathy, Envy, and the Nature of Good and Evil
And I think that I believe that all comes from envy in that classical sense that if I don't feel good enough, I'm going to want someone to feel better.
Lex Fridman Podcast
#357 β Paul Conti: Narcissism, Sociopathy, Envy, and the Nature of Good and Evil
about.
Lex Fridman Podcast
#357 β Paul Conti: Narcissism, Sociopathy, Envy, and the Nature of Good and Evil
And sure, there can be visual things that that person looks different, right?
Lex Fridman Podcast
#357 β Paul Conti: Narcissism, Sociopathy, Envy, and the Nature of Good and Evil
Or you think about the... I spent some time in Great Britain, and when there's a lot of conflict between Northern Ireland and Ireland, right?
Lex Fridman Podcast
#357 β Paul Conti: Narcissism, Sociopathy, Envy, and the Nature of Good and Evil
And you thought, wow, there's not even a look difference, right?
Lex Fridman Podcast
#357 β Paul Conti: Narcissism, Sociopathy, Envy, and the Nature of Good and Evil
It's the same general religious umbrella, same ethnicity, right?