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February 2026

Macro Cultural Debt
The personal lives of Olympic medalists seem overwhelmingly devoted to practicing their sport; a dreary life.
 • Robin Hanson
Buying News By Metric
For many decades I’ve thought about how to reform areas of life via finding ways to measure the long term outcomes people want from each area, and then…
 • Robin Hanson
Treat Info Institutions Alike
“Info institutions” solicit contributions, aggregate them into info summaries, and distribute such summaries to audiences.
 • Robin Hanson
Our Modern Mistake
People hate to be given direct orders, especially if they will have to visibly follow such orders, and especially if they feel rivalrous with those who…
 • Robin Hanson
AI is Acceleration
I was once an AI researcher, and since then I’ve been both an economist and a futurist for many decades.
 • Robin Hanson
Mature Cultural Desire
A common immature attitude to desire is to assume that you are entitled to what you passionately desire, and to then cry if you don’t get it, to…
 • Robin Hanson
Capitalist ≠ Voluntary
Time for a status update on cultural drift. I’ve been pondering solutions, and now see at best only three weakly promising options. The other possible…
 • Robin Hanson
Situate Your Essay
Having been academic researcher for over forty years now, I am well aware of academia’s many big failures as an intellectual system.
 • Robin Hanson
The Myth of Libertarian Vs Authoritarian
Many have long described variation in political opinion in terms of two key dimensions, described either as economic freedom and personal freedom, or…
 • Robin Hanson
Your Deepest Value is Adaption
You like some people, food, and TV shows more than you do others.
 • Robin Hanson
Answered Prayer Seems Implausible
Our universe is vast and mysterious.
 • Robin Hanson
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