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Basically LeCun didn’t use the word “natural”, he just described that hierarchy exists (a descriptive statement). The other guy plugs in the word “natural”, and claims that LeCun is believing in a “natural” hierarchy (a prescriptive statement).

The article is dense, and not in a good way. “Evolution-ordained” blah blah blah, really?

Of course. But people will only read the headline.

Sounds like that to me too.

One the main things Jordan Peterson talks about is hierarchy. So to be welcomed by the center-left and others, one should probably steer clear of all discussion of hierarchy--other than to say it's bad, and a direct result of racism, sexism, bigotry or any of the other isms Ferris was uninterested in.

hierarchies and/or leaders exist because sometimes decision need to be made without debate.