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Who Are Your "Descendants"?
On AI risk, I’ve said that evolved things have two robust habits: wariness of co-existing rivals, even when quite similar to you, and indulgence of…
 • Robin Hanson
Our Likely Future Filter: World Govt
The great filter (a term I coined) is all the things that block simple dead matter from evolving into an advanced civilization easily seen from far…
 • Robin Hanson
The End Of Culture
For years now, I’ve collected ideas for fixing cultural drift, and tried to judge which seem more promising.
 • Robin Hanson
200yrs of Reasons For World Govt
I asked Claude Fable 5 to, for each 25yr period starting in 1825, find the top 5 authors arguing for strong world governance, collect the top 3 reasons…
 • Robin Hanson
LLM-judged policy debates
In many policy areas, the usual convention wisdom on policy is actually in substantial conflict with many of the specific details that experts know…
 • Robin Hanson
Overly Smooth Drained Strict Costly Norms
Humanity’s superpower is cultural evolution, which we had working long before language.
 • Robin Hanson
Callard's Uni-Context
A new conceptual tool for understanding the modern world just dropped:
 • Robin Hanson
This Time Is Always Different
Over the last few centuries the world has seen many huge changes.
 • Robin Hanson
Firm Inside Info Auctions
In the process of seeing and doing things, firm principals acquire “inside” info on the future value of their firm, and on the wisdom of particular firm…
 • Robin Hanson
Why So Lucky In Weights?
The website InTheWeights.Com rates people on a 0-1000 scale re how well they are known by LLMs.
 • Robin Hanson
My Politics
Not sure why I didn’t notice before, but I’ve just realized that my key ask re cultural drift, namely let’s try to save cherished parts of our culture…
 • Robin Hanson

June 2026

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