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AI Vs. Human Value Drift
I don’t see why people concerned with value drift should be especially focused on AI.
 • Robin Hanson
AI Pause Regs Look Risky
People dislike AI for many reasons, but one extreme fear is that AIs will escape control from those who make, buy, or rent them, and then hurt others.
 • Robin Hanson
What Hidden Motives Imply
My book with the excellent co-author, Kevin Simler, The Elephant in the Brain: Hidden Motives in Everyday Life, was published almost nine years ago, and…
 • Robin Hanson
Your Conscience Is Not A Moral Oracle
I’ve previously outlined three ways we might fix cultural drift.
 • Robin Hanson
Disclosure Seems Unlikely
Many who hold the plausible belief that some UFOs are caused by strange strong (“alien”) powers now believe that the US (and maybe other) govts have…
 • Robin Hanson
Modern Worries
Hope is more fragile than fear.
 • Robin Hanson

August 2026

Aliens Are Not Crazy Unlikely
Astrobiologists have, for decades, defaulted to a conservative burden of proof that leans into two aphorisms coined by Sagan … life … should be…
 • Robin Hanson
Testimony Data Project
Humans have long reported seeing many strange things.
 • Robin Hanson
Make Peace With Darwin
When people suggest that you “make peace with God”, they might mean:
 • Robin Hanson
No-New-Physics Consciousness
There is a vast literature near the topic of this post, much of which has developed specialized vocabularies and concepts.
 • Robin Hanson
Digital Mind Suicide
Greg Egan’s 1994 novel Permutation City depicts digital minds having a right to suicide; if they push a particular internal button, they end.
 • Robin Hanson
Digital Mind Castes
Humans have two main relations to animals: they are either food or pets.
 • Robin Hanson
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