Condorcet
person
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first heard May 2013
last heard 28 Mar
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French mathematician and political scientist, early advocate of human progress
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newest first · ▶ plays the momentNathaniel WhittemoreThe AI Daily Brief: Artificial Intelligence News and Analysis · How AI Can Help Democracy Work Better · 4:54 · 28 Mar
…Condorcet saw it ultimately as a bulwark against superstition and stupidity.…
Nathaniel WhittemoreThe AI Daily Brief: Artificial Intelligence News and Analysis · How AI Can Help Democracy Work Better · 3:27 · 28 Mar
…Condorcet was an 18th century political economist and mathematician who, in his outlines of a historical view of the progress of the human mind, traced the Enlightenment and the rise of modern democracy straight back to printed books.…
Peter ThielThe Jordan B. Peterson Podcast · 541. Why We Stopped Progressing | Peter Thiel · 26:42 · Apr 2025
…Or was it meant to be a substitute where it was an alternate way to build heaven on earth without requiring God? Radical life extension was sort of an important part of the early modern project. Benjamin Franklin, Condorcet, all these people thought that you could perhaps indefinitely prolong human life.…
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