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Dreamtime Drift
Two weeks from now is the 15th anniversary of one of my most popular essays, “This is the Dreamtime”.
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Modernism Tests Cultural Drift
Modernism, in the fine arts, [is] a break with the past and the concurrent search for new forms of expression … felt a growing alienation incompatible…
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Messengers Wanted
Experts are the people who know and do the most on particular valuable topics, while elites are the people of highest status … we … tend to accept many…
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Join me at Interintellect
Next Wednesday, 6:30p ET, I’ll talk with Katherine Dee about cultural drift at Interintellect. Subscribers to this blog can join this event for free by:
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Rational Culture
For millennia, thinkers have spent a lot of effort figuring out how an ideal “rational” agent would reason and act.
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On Liberality
To the ancients, a “liberal” was educated, generous, tolerant, high- and open-minded, and above petty concerns.
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Kipping on Grabby Aliens
If you recall, our grabby aliens analysis tries to explain 3 key datums: a) we don’t see any huge alien civs in our sky b) we have arrived at a very…
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August 2024

Life Without Hard Steps?
Many kinds of things could have happened in history.
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The Big Econ Error
As a professor of economics, I feel obligated to publicly declare what I see as the biggest error that we economists promote to the world, using our…
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Why Don’t Gamers Win At Life?
Last weekend I attended Bryan Caplan’s annual board game weekend CaplaCon, as I have since ‘07.
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How Far Might We Fall?
Unless something big changes, world population will start to fall in a few decades, after which it will most likely rise again due to insular fertile…
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Culture Policy Is Neglected
Long ago in physics I learned of the Union of Concerned Scientists. Then in computer science I learned of Computer Professionals For Social…
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