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How Do Values Change?
In standard decision theory, an agent makes a choice in each of a large number of possible choice situations. If these choices satisfy some plausible…
Mar 20
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Robin Hanson
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Caplan's Build Baby Build
My beloved colleague Bryan Caplan’s books almost never disappoint. So even though I haven’t seen it yet, I can heartily recommend his new book Build…
Mar 20
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Robin Hanson
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Libertarianism As Deep Multiculturalism
A shallow “multiculturalism” tolerates and even celebrates diverse cultural markers, such as clothes, food, music, myths, art, furniture, accents…
Mar 5
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Robin Hanson
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February 2024
Polymaths Are Late Bloomers
There is a big literature on the ages at which intellectuals peak in life. The rate of publishing papers peaks about tenure time. Physical sciences peak…
Feb 25
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Robin Hanson
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The Mystery of Order
In the ancient world, people tended to see rival nations as ruled by illicit tyrants, while their nation was ruled justly by a king. Two centuries ago…
Feb 17
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Robin Hanson
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Why Not For-Profit Govt?
An organization has: more than one person, some resources, and a process for making decisions about them. An org owned and controlled by a single person…
Feb 16
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Robin Hanson
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The Good and Bad Of Academia
Hanging at non-academic conferences lately, I’ve noticed how their cultures differs from my familiar academic cultures. For example, in a “pitch…
Feb 14
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Robin Hanson
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Our Tenured Civ
Compared to untenured but tenure-track academic faculty (most of who will later get tenure), tenured professors put in less effort, are less focused on…
Feb 12
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Robin Hanson
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Why Crypto
Sometimes people start out poor, and end up rich. Sometimes this is because they create real net value for the world, and sometimes this is because they…
Feb 8
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Robin Hanson
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January 2024
Elite-Only Financial Markets
Prediction markets are financial markets, but compared to typical financial markets they are intended more to aggregate info than to hedge risks. Thus…
Jan 31
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Robin Hanson
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Why The Line
Cities today are mostly rooms in (home/office/store) units in buildings separated by roads. Besides roads, cities provide city services like power…
Jan 26
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Robin Hanson
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Brink Lindsey's Doubts
Brink Lindsey and I recorded the above conversation on fertility, wherein we agreed on a lot. Afterward, Brink wrote on two “points of difference…
Jan 25
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Robin Hanson
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