Pedro Domingos

American Revolution exception to the rule?

That's why we see so much nutpicking -- rabble rousers find some real or imagined target on the "other side" to make infamous and stir up emotion.

But it also helps move the Overton Window in your direction, at least when the media and cultural institutions are overwhelmingly with you.

It pays if it exploits asymmetry(@nntaleb ‘s minority rule) long enough to sieze sufficient power or influence to make it compulsory.

Unless you kill them all first. Which has been done before.

It doesn't pay, but it works unfortunately

That’s why manufacturing extremism in the opposition has worked so well for you, and much of the right wing. The result is radicalized anger at perceived victimization.

I am not sure about that. Don't dismiss data just because it leads you to extreme conclusions. It might be lead to the solution we need, that everyone else is afraid to pursue.