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The Saad Truth with Dr. Saad

Suicidal Empathy - My Lecture at the University of Chicago (The Saad Truth with Dr. Saad_913)

The Saad Truth with Dr. Saad

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🗓️ 9 November 2025

⏱️ 26 minutes

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My lecture was part of the Freedom of Intellectual Navigation Conference organized and hosted by Professor Dorian Abbott on November 7, 2025. Hat tip to my wife for having recorded my talk on her phone. _______________________________________ If you appreciate my work and would like to support it: https://subscribestar.com/the-saad-truth https://patreon.com/GadSaad https://paypal.me/GadSaad To subscribe to my exclusive content on X, please visit my bio at https://x.com/GadSaad _______________________________________ This clip was posted on November 9, 2025 on my YouTube channel as THE SAAD TRUTH_1934: https://youtu.be/nxXohg8mgng _______________________________________ Please visit my website gadsaad.com, and sign up for alerts. If you appreciate my content, click on the "Support My Work" button. I count on my fans to support my efforts. You can donate via Patreon, PayPal, and/or SubscribeStar. _______________________________________ Dr. Gad Saad is a professor, evolutionary behavioral scientist, and author who pioneered the use of evolutionary psychology in marketing and consumer behavior. In addition to his scientific work, Dr. Saad is a leading public intellectual who often writes and speaks about idea pathogens that are destroying logic, science, reason, and common sense.  _______________________________________

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0:00.0

Guys, so I'm currently at the old miss, so I'm no longer in Canada, which is a political

0:06.5

refugee from Canada.

0:10.6

So first I wanted to say that, it's great to be at the University of Chicago because I'm

0:16.2

reading right now a book by biography on Thomas Soar, and Of course Thomas Soor was at the University of Chicago.

0:22.6

It's wonderful.

0:23.6

It's certain difference that both these things would be happening.

0:27.6

So I want to give you a bit of a background to how I got into studying

0:31.6

rationality and then the parasitic mind and then suicidal empathy.

0:35.6

My doctoral training is actually in studying

0:40.5

axiomatic rationality, al-a-conman and nursery for those of you. And as a matter of one of my

0:46.4

former professors of Cornell, who then won the Nobel Prize in 2017, was a big failure,

0:55.9

with whom I studied all of this stuff.

1:01.0

So axiomatic rationality would be if I prefer carbate or carb B and I prefer car B to to car C, it has to be that I prefer A to car C.

1:04.0

If I don't do that, I'm being intransitive, therefore I'm being irrational.

1:08.0

Or if I tell you that a hamburger is 90% fat-free or 10% fat, they are is isomorphic statements,

1:15.6

and yet people will judge them as being different.

1:19.6

And the third example, if I ask you to evaluate options A and B separately or together,

1:26.6

it should still yield the same preference.

1:29.0

If I prefer A in one version, I should prefer A in the other, and yet people have reversal of choices.

1:35.3

And so my original training was in studying rationality within this very restrained sense of rationality,

1:43.3

and somatomatic rationality.

1:45.0

But then how do you explain the irrationality of saying that women too, and men too can menstruate,

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