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> Of course, "authoritarian vs libertarian" and "left vs right" are both incredibly un-nuanced gross oversimplifications. Right, but they aren't chosen at rand
by twic 5y ago
> Of course, "authoritarian vs libertarian" and "left vs right" are both incredibly un-nuanced gross oversimplifications.
Right, but they aren't chosen at random. These are the two axes which empirically fall out if you do principal component analysis on people's policy beliefs:
http://www.ex-parrot.com/~chris/wwwitter/20050415-my_country_right_or_left.html http://www.ex-parrot.com/~chris/wwwitter/20050415-my_country...
Whereas Vitalik's axes are pulled directly out of, at best, thin air.
- AnthonyMouse 5y agoIsn't that just "wet streets cause rain"? Once you tell people that one tribe is the Left and the other is the Right and they choose one to align with, they're inclined to pick up its other positions out of tribal loyalty. That doesn't mean they're actually principled policy groupings. They're just how a coalition shakes out when you need 50%+1 to win.
- enragedcacti 5y agoStudies have confirmed that the structures of the brain vary in size predictably on the left/right political axis. [1] None of that necessarily invalidates what you are saying but I wouldn't expect to see that correlation if there weren't at least some underlying association within policy groups. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biology_and_political_orientation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biology_and_political_orientat...
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