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Overcoming Bias

Robin Hanson
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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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Skinner, Cattell, Stewart, Wilson on Deliberate Culture

My analysis of cultural drift has (at least) three distinctive elements:

  1. We have a big problem: we broke our process for the evolution of (not in) cultures.

  2. Instead of reviving blind evolution, it might be better to evolve delib...

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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. Which promotes me to write this, hoping it can show up for others when they so search. This content isn’t...

14 days ago
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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. But society usually has less of a reason to indulge them in its policy analysis. For example, we shoul...

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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. I see 3 new ways: let capitalism run most all life areas, run small groups by speculative market...

17 days ago
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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. So I collected this list of 20 candidate sources of moral authority: Activist/interest group, He...

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