Episode 72: Moral Progress and Tolerance for Intolerance

from The Theory of Anything · host Bruce Nielson and Peter Johansen

Here we use Nassim Nicholas Taleb’s essay “The Most Intolerant Wins: The Dictatorship of the Small Minority” as a springboard to discuss majority rule, moral progress, knowledge growth, wokism, Karl Popper’s paradox of tolerance, and “big agriculture.”

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