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Our Likely Future Filter: World Govt
The great filter (a term I coined) is all the things that block simple dead matter from evolving into an advanced civilization easily seen from far…
 • Robin Hanson
The End Of Culture
For years now, I’ve collected ideas for fixing cultural drift, and tried to judge which seem more promising.
 • Robin Hanson
200yrs of Reasons For World Govt
I asked Claude Fable 5 to, for each 25yr period starting in 1825, find the top 5 authors arguing for strong world governance, collect the top 3 reasons…
 • Robin Hanson
LLM-judged policy debates
In many policy areas, the usual convention wisdom on policy is actually in substantial conflict with many of the specific details that experts know…
 • Robin Hanson
Overly Smooth Drained Strict Costly Norms
Humanity’s superpower is cultural evolution, which we had working long before language.
 • Robin Hanson
Callard's Uni-Context
A new conceptual tool for understanding the modern world just dropped:
 • Robin Hanson
This Time Is Always Different
Over the last few centuries the world has seen many huge changes.
 • 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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