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Dangers of Competent Governance
In most places, most areas of life are dominated either by competition between multiple units, or by the governance of a single organization.
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Intuitions Have Context
By living in our world, we collect intuitions on how the physical stuff around us behaves, and on the most practical ways to do particular things.
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Robin Hanson
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Stories Are Behavior, Explained
Stories describe stuff that happens, in patterns that feel understandable to reader/viewers.
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Robin Hanson
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My Complaint Re Academia
If you want to get paid for abstract analysis that is not mainly organized around current cultural or political fights, academia is pretty much the only…
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Key Gadget: Pro-Equilibria Norms
Fill a plane with chimps, and most might be dead before it lands.
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Politics and Culture
Though I got my PhD in formal political theory and spent the last year studying culture, I didn’t until a few days ago notice the big connections…
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Choice At Different Abstraction Levels
I just noticed an interesting question that I’ve never heard anyone ask.
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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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