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Diversity of viewpoints is essential for long term prosperity - it allows for a marketplace of ideas and limits blind spots. The first time this really clicked
by bitcurious 6y ago
Diversity of viewpoints is essential for long term prosperity - it allows for a marketplace of ideas and limits blind spots.
The first time this really clicked for me was when I dived deeply into the history of the First World War. If I could restate the root cause, it was complete failure by both the British and especially the Germans to envision a point of view different from their own. They each operated like they were sparring with themselves, and shit got out of control. The problem is that it’s now vogue to assume what point of view a person holds bases entirely on their race/gender/etc.
P.S. If WWI sounds interesting, I very much recommend the podcast “When Diplomacy Fails.”
- lbj 6y agoDo you have any evidence/studies to back up this point of view? Sowell has done quite a bit of research which backs up his conclusions. He has a couple of books on the subject you might be interested in.
- bitcurious 6y agoI don’t have any studies I could point to, but there is the fact that children of immigrants are over represented as founders. I unscientifically attribute that to growing up with two points of view on everything - the old country and the new. It gives you ideas.
- lawnchair_larry 6y agoObvious selection bias, if that’s even true.
- malandrew 6y ago> Diversity of viewpoints is essential for long term prosperity Maybe the solution here is to develop a standardized test that measures diversity of viewpoint in a way that is blind to genetics.
- Avicebron 6y agoHey I agree, once we say "you're genetics give you a diversity of viewpoint" we are typecasting by genetics. Once we say, "you're genetics make you think this way" we are walking right down the path of eugenics....seem's wrong?