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Against Bayesianism — David Deutsch

The Joe Walker Podcast

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Will the Soviet Union Survive Until 19 84?

You mention that switch from optimistic to pessimistic visions of the future. And you mention that that shift may have been a caused by this congealing intellectual environment around pessimism. I don't think there's an inexorable er evolution in this thing, i think it happened because of specific mistakes that that got imbedded in systems. Er, particularly academic world and government bureaucracy. Does that make sense to i think that happened, but i don't er it's, it's, how can i put it?

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