Evidence receipt / uncertainty
Published · transcript-backedJoseph Henrich: uncertainty
14 Dec 2016 Conversations with Tyler Joseph Henrich on WEIRD Societies and Life Among Two Strange Tribes (Live at Mason)
“The main thing would be negative growth, and yeah, conflict with various groups. We don’t know yet, but those are my suspicions.”
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- Joseph Henrich
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- uncertainty
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- 14 Dec 2016
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- Conversations with Tyler
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…You think it’s scarcity or slow growth or ethnic conflict or what? What are the triggers? The main thing would be negative growth, and yeah, conflict with various groups. We don’t know yet, but those are my suspicions. We have some cases, like, say, the former Yugoslavia in the early 1990s. It fights a vicious war; not too long before it seemed levels of ethnic conflict were going to prove manageable if you look at measures such as intermarriage or just domestic violence. Then all of a sudden things break loose and you would think at this time people would have had optimistic views about the future and maybe wish to go their own way, but not fight on such a scale. What’s the right conceptual framework for thinking about conflicts like that?…
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