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Reference

• 80,000 Hours Podcast with Rob Wiblin: #59 - Prof Cass Sunstein on how change happens, and why it's so often abrupt & unpredictable

Notes

• 3 moving parts for social movements
  1. Diverse thresholds: People have different "limits" for taking action/advocating for something e.g. Person hitting his child - Some ppl will walk up and scold person, others will look on and judge
  2. Preference falsification - Communicating a preference that differs from one's true preference
  3. Interdependencies - If group A acts, then group B and group C might also act. So on and so forth.
• Group polarization - Social interactions between people can further entrench them in their predispositions e.g. two people who think we need to take moderate action on climate change talk and the result is two people who are terrified about climate change and think immediate action is absolutely necessary
• "Regimes aren't bound to fall, they happen to fall."
• Adaptive preferences - People's preferences adapt to situation they find themselves in
  • e.g. Women's equality has been going up, but women's happiness has been going down since the 1970s (i.e. the more gender equality is talked about, the less satisfied women feel with the current situation)