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Your Conscience Is Not A Moral Oracle
I’ve previously outlined three ways we might fix cultural drift.
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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…
Sep 4
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Robin Hanson
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Modern Worries
Hope is more fragile than fear.
Sep 1
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Robin Hanson
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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…
Aug 31
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Testimony Data Project
Humans have long reported seeing many strange things.
Aug 27
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Robin Hanson
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Make Peace With Darwin
When people suggest that you “make peace with God”, they might mean:
Aug 24
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Robin Hanson
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No-New-Physics Consciousness
There is a vast literature near the topic of this post, much of which has developed specialized vocabularies and concepts.
Aug 15
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Robin Hanson
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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.
Aug 14
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Robin Hanson
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Digital Mind Castes
Humans have two main relations to animals: they are either food or pets.
Aug 10
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Robin Hanson
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The Modern Mind's Fatal Flaw
Here’s a quick history of minds.
Aug 8
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Robin Hanson
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Easy To Hard Discipline Academic Careers Paths
Tasks often vary along a dimension where some tasks matter more, yet are also harder to judge for quality of performance.
Aug 7
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Robin Hanson
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How To Be A Usually-Right Contrarian
We rightly celebrate rebels who were initially contrarian on key claims, but then got the world to later agree with them.
Aug 5
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