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For Long-Term Influence, Pick A Side
You exist now, with some health, wealth, and connections, and you therefore have some influence. You might use this influence for immediate personal…
Robin Hanson
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LLMs For On-Brand Org Text
Most orgs have a pre-review process to edit and approve high-level text sent to a wide org scope, such as to the public or to distant orgs. Legal, PR…
Robin Hanson
Mar 27
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Inquiry Porn
Treating stuff as sacred interferes with thinking carefully and analytically about it: When we talk about sacred stuff, our minds focus more on style…
Robin Hanson
Mar 23
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Women As Worriers Who Exclude
This is an excellent 2014 book on how men differ from women: In Warriors and Worriers, psychologist Joyce Benenson presents a new theory of sex…
Robin Hanson
Mar 22
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Why Is Law Perverse?
In 2011, law prof Leo Katz published an interesting book, Why The Law is Perverse. Katz first lists many ways that the law is perverse, especially…
Robin Hanson
Mar 21
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AI Architecture
What I’m about to say is pretty obvious to most artificial intelligence (AI) researchers, but I think others might benefit from hearing it. In general…
Robin Hanson
Mar 20
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Classic Seduction Scene
Consider this iconic seduction scene from '58 movie The Lovers, from 58:55 on. It is dark, quiet, behind a large house at night. Jeanne walks past…
Robin Hanson
Mar 19
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Magic Kingdom
From 2nd grade on my family lived in Southern California, and so we went to visit Disneyland about once a year during my childhood, trips that I greatly…
Robin Hanson
Mar 18
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Turns Out, I Believe In Magic
According to Durkheim (and me), humans prefer to bind together not so much by directly and explicitly valuing each other, but instead indirectly, by…
Robin Hanson
Mar 12
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Why Tenure
Some people think that number of publications or citations, weighted by venue prestige, is an adequate measure of one key kind of academic productivity…
Robin Hanson
Mar 11
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Democracy Needs Free Speech
I got my PhD in formal political theory from Caltech in 1997. And here I’m going to pull rank, invoking my expertise on democracy. Our society is…
Robin Hanson
Mar 8
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Statement of Commitment to Academic Freedom and to Intellectual Merit
I (Robin Hanson) have signed this statement, and am posting it simultaneously with three of my colleagues, Bryan Caplan, Alex Tabarrok, and Don…
Robin Hanson
Mar 6
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