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Culture As A Cruel Master
Some things are said to be good servants but bad masters. Consider applying this warning to culture. Culture is humanity’s superpower; it is what makes…
Apr 22
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Robin Hanson
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Who Warns Of Warners?
Simple action stories depict conflict with an outsider villain/monster. In fighting that monster, the hero often gets help from their usual social…
Apr 22
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Robin Hanson
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Hail Cecilia Heyes
I am addicted to ‘viewquakes’, insights which dramatically change my world view. (More) To my shame, I missed Tyler’s review of the 2018 book Cognitive…
Apr 20
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Robin Hanson
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Bostrom’s Deep Utopia
Nick Bostrom’s new tome … has a great cover with a number of interesting questions and a subtitle that hints that it might address the meaning of life…
Apr 20
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Robin Hanson
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World Value Drift
A new paper looks at 40 questions from the World Values Survey from 1981 to 2022 (n = 406,185) for the 76 nations that did this survey more than once…
Apr 19
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Robin Hanson
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Old Folks See Culture Change
Why do we fear being lied to? Because we don’t like others manipulating our beliefs. But our fear of being misled by false news pales by comparison to…
Apr 16
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Robin Hanson
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Hail Richerson & Boyd
In the last two days I read Richerson & Boyd (2004) Not By Genes Alone: How Culture Transformed Human Evolution, by two of the founders of modern…
Apr 14
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Robin Hanson
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Systems Explain STEM vs Culture Style
In 2008, The Times Literary Supplement included [CP Snow’s 1959] The Two Cultures and the Scientific Revolution in its list of the 100 books that most…
Apr 2
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March 2024
On Culture Talk
I haven’t been posting so much lately, as I’ve reading & thinking a lot about culture; hope to say lots more soon. In my readings, I’ve been frustrated…
Mar 30
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Robin Hanson
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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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