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Garett Jones - Immigration, National IQ, & Less Democracy

Dwarkesh Podcast

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The Myth of the Rational Voter

Over the long run, should we expect any of the tensions or all the tensions of ethnic diversity to fade away? Like, nobody today worries about the different Parisian tribes and France butting heads at the workplace. The problem is that human beings are always looking for a focal point, and we can- people will use visible appearance as a horrifying focal point around which to peg their conflicts. It's an easy one because our brains are looking for visual patterns, and I don't like that; it's something that will probably keep happening.

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