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How Weak Is Cultural Evolution?
World fertility decline seems the clearest example of a maladaptive cultural trend, as healthy biological species just don’t decline in times of plenty, peace, and health. Two main theories compete to explain this trend. One is that previou...
We Must Change How We Source Morality
Consider three sources of opinions or habits:
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(A) Inherit - passed down via DNA or culture, mostly sit in background unquestioned, give assumptions for B,C.
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(B) Consider - personally think own thoughts, conscious or otherwise. I...
Meta-Institutions Matter Most
This is an essay. Like most of my essays, I write it mostly to strangers. And with it, I hope to influence history. Some influence history via words to strangers that show drama, interestingness, impressiveness, or political and moral evoca...
The Elephant In The Op-ed
Most writing and talking embraces our usual illusions on human motives. In our book The Elephant in the Brain (with Kevin Simler) we instead expose such illusions. Which many have told us feels depressing and demotivating; it’s not what the...
Toward-Forager Predictions
In my last post I reported:
For the last century, … averaging over [3] LLMs, 89% of culture trends that can be classified are toward-forager.
And 81% of such trends can be so classified. For the prior two centuries this explanatory powe...
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