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#257 — The State of the World

Making Sense with Sam Harris

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I'm a Pretty Uninformed Threat

David Frum: Why does getting more and more of everybody who will be uninformed, add anything but noise to the signal? He argues that it would be better for a smaller percentage of a society to vote if that percentage were people who were actually informed about issues. There are countries that are trying this places like switzerland. In canada, i believe it's in toronto, they're flirting with this idea of saying, hey, wait a second. We'll guess what, only you know, a large proportion of the country's population is not even invested in the stock market. So all i'm suggesting is that if you want to have a egaletarian society,

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