You exist now, with some health, wealth, and connections, and you therefore have some influence. You might use this influence for immediate personal…
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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…
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Treating stuff as sacred interferes with thinking carefully and analytically about it: When we talk about sacred stuff, our minds focus more on style…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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According to Durkheim (and me), humans prefer to bind together not so much by directly and explicitly valuing each other, but instead indirectly, by…
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Some people think that number of publications or citations, weighted by venue prestige, is an adequate measure of one key kind of academic productivity…
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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…
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I (Robin Hanson) have signed this statement, and am posting it simultaneously with three of my colleagues, Bryan Caplan, Alex Tabarrok, and Don…
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