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#59 Classic episode - Cass Sunstein on how change happens, and why it's so often abrupt & unpredictable

80,000 Hours Podcast

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Social Movements Are a Product of Demonstration and Contagion Effects

It's common in social science circles to refer to two things, demonstration effects and contagion effects. But that might be like trying to explain the success of opium by its dormative qualities. Opium is said by some prankters to induce sleep because it has dormative properties. That's not an explanation. That's a restatement. It doesn't ou anything. We shut up or worse, we misstate what we actually think. The second point, involving diverse thresholds, is that for some people, and you know them, don't you, injustice and they're there. I had a friend in o the middle east where we witnessed, he and i, a father beating

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