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Cryonics Chances
Attending an event on cryonics this last weekend tempts me to revisit the topic.
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Open Talk Friday on Cultural Drift
This Friday at 4p ET I’ll give a Zoom talk, open to all, on Cultural Drift.
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My Culture Posts
Jul 18, Concepts of Culture
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Concepts of Culture
A big obstacle to studying “culture” is this: the word is associated with a usually large number of distinct but related concepts. Here are five…
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Convo on Culture
I invite those who’ve paid to subscribe to this blog to talk to me tomorrow afternoon 4-5:30p ET on zoom about culture. I’ll put a link to the zoom room…
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Cultural Drift Of Digital Minds
Cultural evolution is humanity’s superpower. But we may have broken it.
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Nature, Culture, Or Law?
To get your child potty trained, I see three approaches:
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On Worker Equity
A recent AER paper used data on what 20,000 college freshman in 2012 thought they would earn upon graduation, on what they actually earned in 2017, on…
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Neo Social Darwinism
As the quotes in my recent post suggest, when intellectuals came to believe that life, and most everything we value. was structured by a competitive…
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Who Cares About The Future?
Pondering human evolutionary dynamics, I wondered what people want to pass on to their future. So I collected 32 options and did 24 polls asking “what…
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History of Social Darwinism
As prep for coming posts, let me fill you in on some history. First, the Wikipedia entry on “Social Darwinism”:
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Culture-Oriented History
I’ve been traveling a lot for six weeks; one more week to go, then I’ll stay home for a while. In that time, I’ve given many talks, including two on…
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