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Old Folks See Culture Change
Why do we fear being lied to? Because we don’t like others manipulating our beliefs. But our fear of being misled by false news pales by comparison to…
Apr 16
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Robin Hanson
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Hail Richerson & Boyd
In the last two days I read Richerson & Boyd (2004) Not By Genes Alone: How Culture Transformed Human Evolution, by two of the founders of modern…
Apr 14
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Robin Hanson
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Systems Explain STEM vs Culture Style
In 2008, The Times Literary Supplement included [CP Snow’s 1959] The Two Cultures and the Scientific Revolution in its list of the 100 books that most…
Apr 2
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Robin Hanson
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March 2024
On Culture Talk
I haven’t been posting so much lately, as I’ve reading & thinking a lot about culture; hope to say lots more soon. In my readings, I’ve been frustrated…
Mar 30
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Robin Hanson
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How Do Values Change?
In standard decision theory, an agent makes a choice in each of a large number of possible choice situations. If these choices satisfy some plausible…
Mar 20
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Robin Hanson
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Caplan's Build Baby Build
My beloved colleague Bryan Caplan’s books almost never disappoint. So even though I haven’t seen it yet, I can heartily recommend his new book Build…
Mar 20
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Robin Hanson
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Libertarianism As Deep Multiculturalism
A shallow “multiculturalism” tolerates and even celebrates diverse cultural markers, such as clothes, food, music, myths, art, furniture, accents…
Mar 5
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Robin Hanson
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February 2024
Polymaths Are Late Bloomers
There is a big literature on the ages at which intellectuals peak in life. The rate of publishing papers peaks about tenure time. Physical sciences peak…
Feb 25
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Robin Hanson
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The Mystery of Order
In the ancient world, people tended to see rival nations as ruled by illicit tyrants, while their nation was ruled justly by a king. Two centuries ago…
Feb 17
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Robin Hanson
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Why Not For-Profit Govt?
An organization has: more than one person, some resources, and a process for making decisions about them. An org owned and controlled by a single person…
Feb 16
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Robin Hanson
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The Good and Bad Of Academia
Hanging at non-academic conferences lately, I’ve noticed how their cultures differs from my familiar academic cultures. For example, in a “pitch…
Feb 14
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Robin Hanson
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Our Tenured Civ
Compared to untenured but tenure-track academic faculty (most of who will later get tenure), tenured professors put in less effort, are less focused on…
Feb 12
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