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After Eating It, Software Will Bite The World
Software is eating the world. … All of the technology required to transform industries through software finally works and can be widely delivered at…
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Robin Hanson
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Choose: Cultural or Bayesian Morality
One of humanity’s key superpowers is our cultural plasticity: we change our species by each of us as kids copying the adults around us. We can…
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Honing Fertility Fall Theories
Richard Hanania has done me the honor of carefully thinking through my & other fertility theories, finding consequences and data tests I didn't think…
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Robin Hanson
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Bow To Our Future Overlords
The political left and right each have a big long term problem about which they cry most. For the left it is global warming; for the right fertility…
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Fertility Fall From Selection Neglect
In the novel Pot Luck by Zola, a middle class woman in 1862 explains why she had only one kid, Marie, & wants Marie to have only one kid: ‘Children, you…
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Ancient Fertility Quotes
This graph of European urban population over history shows some dramatic declines, suggesting that there may have been historical analogue to our…
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Why Not Heterodox Research?
The following claim seems both roughly true and pregnant with implications: The vast majority of statements that appear in natural human conversation…
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Overcoming Bias
Overcoming Bias
This is a blog on why we believe and do what we do, why we pretend otherwise, how we might do better, and what our descendants might do, if they don't all die.
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