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100% or 0% gun ownership is better than 50% gun ownership. Fully deregulated or fully public health care/insurance is better than partially regulated. Full monog and full poly people report higher satisfaction than partially poly people. Is there a term for this phenomenon?

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Didn’t Scott Alexander write something about this kind of thing a couple of days ago. Not exactly but ‘attractor’ states. I’m wittering I know.

Aella

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Yeah I read this, it's not really attractor states but that's a good concept anyway

10:16 PM · Feb 4, 2021

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BTW Aella I just checked and you have a billion followers so if you retweeted my podcast about the role of plague in the fall of the Roman Empire I did with Kyle Harper I’d soon be shouldering Joe Rogan to one side. No pressure of course . . .

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