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Authenticity as Grace
Last week I realized that today’s rapid cultural evolution, mediated greatly by youth movements, seems encouraged by the common modern norm favoring…
Mar 26 • Robin Hanson
Finish The Industrial Revolution, Or Bust
Do you love something historically-unusual about today’s culture?
Mar 24 • Robin Hanson
Many Culture Causes
I asked a set of polls, and 3 LLMs (ChatGPT,Claude,Gemini) to rate the relative explanatory power of the following 16 causes of cultural change for the…
Mar 22 • Robin Hanson
How Meaning Makes Suffering
Humans have inherited many ancient values mainly encoded in DNA.
Mar 18 • Robin Hanson
Whose Mistake US Slavery?
Most people today are confident that the US in 1860 having ~4M slaves (out of its 31M population) was a big moral mistake.
Mar 14 • Robin Hanson
We Submit By Banning Blackmail
An ancient forager norm tells us to resist domination.
Mar 9 • Robin Hanson
Insider Journalism
Insider Journalism
Mar 8 • Robin Hanson
Are Humans Egalitarian?
A common motive for studying “egalitarian” primitive social practices is a hope of supporting something like the following narrative:
Mar 7 • Robin Hanson
Overcoming Bias
Overcoming Bias
This is a blog on why we believe and do what we do, why we pretend otherwise, how we might do better, and what our descendants might do, if they don't all die.
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