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thin_carapacetoday at 12:40 AM2 repliesview on HN

there do exist objective arguments for the pursuit of diversity. there do also exist objective arguments otherwise.

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/padr.12641

heres an article that discusses how inflated diversity could possibly be a cause of social tension. the article's abstract concludes with a shrug ('too many factors!') but it does provide links to research papers arguing both for and against this case.

on the surface it seems pretty clear to me. behaviour is encoded in genetics. if one were surrounded by the same group for a few thousand years, they would share a common base of encodings, therefore social behaviours could be assumed to a higher degree. reference behavioural encodings drastically diverge across cultures (as embodied by religious value sets, or at a different meta level, the idea of low trust vs. high trust societies). based on this drastic divergence, predictions made about one's neighbour scale downwards in accuracy relative to increased cultural diversity.

so i see that jacking up societal entropy leads to lowered societal cohesion. but thats just my stance and id love to hear yours.


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esafaktoday at 2:51 PM

> on the surface it seems pretty clear to me. behaviour is encoded in genetics. if one were surrounded by the same group for a few thousand years, they would share a common base of encodings...

Which homogenous country with thousands of years of existence did you have in mind when writing this??

birdsinktoday at 3:23 AM

I couldn't disagree more. "predictions made about one's neighbour scale downwards in accuracy relative to increased cultural diversity"? I feel like this is just a fancy way of saying that you're uncomfortable with people being different from you. The social tension you're describing is in your own head. Even the article you're citing doesn't even agree with what you're saying.

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