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Skinner, Cattell, Stewart, Wilson on Deliberate Culture
My analysis of cultural drift has (at least) three distinctive elements:
Oct 26
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Robin Hanson
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Why Might Aliens Visit Earth?
I did a web search on the above phrase, in prep for a podcast, and in ten pages of results didn’t find anything I thought reasonable.
Oct 17
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Robin Hanson
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Prefer Evolved To Folk Morality
Individuals often have good reasons to indulge in delusions, such as re superstition, astrology, religion, or their own personal destiny.
Oct 16
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Robin Hanson
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Directed Culture Trials
Unless we find new ways to drive adaptation besides mass death and fragmentation, our civilizations may keep falling and rising indefinitely.
Oct 15
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Robin Hanson
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History of 20 Sources of Moral Authority
Though three weeks ago I outlined a story of the long-term history of changes to moral authority, I decided to study this in a bit more detail.
Oct 12
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Robin Hanson
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Moralized Trends Are Often Extended
Compared to the ancients, we moderns less moralize our personal lives, but more moralize the bigger world around us.
Oct 8
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Robin Hanson
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Mistaking Context for Virtue
Imagine taking a big group of elites from the year 1700, giving them the tech, wealth, and economic options of today, also teaching them new facts that…
Oct 8
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Robin Hanson
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Five Slogans Re Cultural Drift
I’m wondering how well I might organize my cultural drift messages around a few key slogans.
Oct 4
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Robin Hanson
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September 2026
Four Sets of Abstract Moral Systems
Morality is collective; we coordinate together to define and then enforce shared morals.
Sep 30
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Robin Hanson
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Innovation Without Feedback Is Drift
The ancient world respected tradition, and was wary of most kinds of change.
Sep 29
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Robin Hanson
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Don’t Other AIs
I asked Grok4.6 to summarize the usual human pattern of “othering”:
Sep 25
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Robin Hanson
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The Arc of Moral Authority: From Tradition To Interiors To Prices
We are now in the modern era, a brief but consequential few centuries in the history of Earth civilization, between the long ages of a pre-modern era…
Sep 18
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Robin Hanson
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