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by oneng 1459 days ago
This argument reminds me of Taleb's note on Minority rule: https://medium.com/incerto/the-most-intolerant-wins-the-dict...

"The Most Intolerant Wins: The Dictatorship of the Small Minority"

"The black-and-white character of these societal laws can be explained with the following. Assume that under a certain regime, when you mix white and dark blue in various combinations, you don’t get variations of light blue, but dark blue. Such a regime is vastly more likely to produce dark blue than another rule that allows more shades of blue."

One of the bigger bangers from the chapter:

"Yes, an intolerant minority can control and destroy democracy. Actually, as we saw, it will eventually destroy our world."