Rationality Rules
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How to Beat Someone Who's "Just Asking Questions"
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July 22, 2026
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July 22, 2026
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Jordan Peterson hosted Destiny on his own podcast — in person, no moderator, no clock, home advantage entirely his. It didn't help. And the strangest part is where the trouble started: on the one topic the two of them completely agree about.
Because the moment agreement threatens to break out, Peterson reaches for the move he's spent a decade perfecting. An enormous, frightening statistic, delivered with absolute confidence and no source. Homework for anyone who doubts it: "go look". And a conclusion that never quite gets said explicitly, just left hanging in the air, for the audience to finish on his behalf.
In this breakdown, we watch the trick get built piece by piece, and then watch Destiny dismantle it with a question so simple it barely qualifies as a technique... yet it's the one thing this move cannot survive. And because homework was assigned, we did it: every number Peterson commits to gets checked against the actual data. It does not go well for him.
By the end, you'll spot this move everywhere, and you'll know exactly what to ask the next person who tries it on you.
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