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#273 – Chris Blattman: War and Violence

Lex Fridman Podcast

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The Uncertainty of Political Science

The dark human thing is like, there's moments in World War II where Hitler's propaganda, he began to believe his own propaganda. And I think as a human being, as a dictator, when you start to believe the lies with which you're controlling the populace, you become detached from this person that's able to resolve world conflict. The fundamental problem that all autocrats have is an information problem because nobody wants to give them the right information.

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