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The most intolerant and rich wins. https://nassimtaleb.org/2016/08/intolerant-wins-dictatorship-small-minority/ https://nassimtaleb.org/2016/08/intolerant-wins
by hackandthink 3y ago
The most intolerant and rich wins.
https://nassimtaleb.org/2016/08/intolerant-wins-dictatorship-small-minority/ https://nassimtaleb.org/2016/08/intolerant-wins-dictatorship...
- dartos 3y agoI think that article used a weird example of kosher lemonade. I think you’d need to work to make lemonade not kosher, like adding gelatin or something. Maybe putting the card before the horse a bit there
- mrweiner 3y agoNot sure whether you just made a typo, but the saying is “putting the cart before the horse,” not the “card.”
- dartos 3y agoYeah it was a typo. I’ve learned that I’m bad at typing on mobile AND bad at proofreading
- gizmo686 3y agoThats kind of the point. Catering to the intolerant is practically free, and the tolerant barely notice, so naturally the intolerant win. The kosher lemonade example is good because it is at the extreme end where almost no one can take offense. With that established, you can start asking 'what if it costs a little?', or 'what if the tolerent have a slight preference that the intolerant don't?'.
- raincom 3y agoSame inference can be drawn from Arrow-Sen impossibility theorem that "there is no voting rule that satisfies the four desirable axioms of decisiveness, consensus, nondictatorship, and independence."
- MollyRealized 3y agoI'm not even sure 'rich' is a requirement - just 'posing as rich' works.