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153. Rational Optimism | Matt Ridley

The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast

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The Origins of Virtue

Despite the potential adaptive utility of being more sensitive to negative information, it can really get out of hand. Because it can precipitate a nihilistic attitude with regard to the future. Andtha: There's a deeper element of optimism in your work as well, which is, in a sense, a kind of non naive rosoianism. It seems to me that work that concentrates on demonstrating how much better things are getting is very much worth putting forward.

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