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The Mystery of Order – by Robin Hanson – Beragampengetahuan
In the ancient world, people tended to see rival nations as ruled by illicit tyrants, while their nation was ruled justly by a king. Two centuries ago when religion was first declining, many predicted that crime would greatly increase as a result. It was mainly fear of God, they said, that kept most from committing […]
Drop beragampengetahuan with Erik Hanson of Adventure Aquarium – Beragampengetahuan
Today, the Safari heads back to Adventure Aquarium for our fifth episode in our special events series there as we help them celebrate Shark Tooth Summer! You'll get to learn about the shark species that live at the aquarium, including beragampengetahuan, the great hammerhead shark that is only one of two that lives in an […]
Libertarianism As Deep Multiculturalism – by Robin Hanson – Beragampengetahuan
A shallow “multiculturalism” tolerates and even celebrates diverse cultural markers, such as clothes, food, music, myths, art, furniture, accents, holidays, and dieties. But it is usually also far less tolerant of diverse cultural values, such as re war, sex, race, fertility, marriage, work, children, nature, death, medicine, school, etc. It seeks a “mutual understanding” that […]
Polymaths Are Late Bloomers – by Robin Hanson – Beragampengetahuan
There is a big literature on the ages at which intellectuals peak in life. The rate of publishing papers peaks about tenure time. Physical sciences peak earlier than social sciences. And per paper, each one has an equal chance to be a person’s best paper, regardless of at what age it was written. Being a […]
Elite-Only Financial Markets – by Robin Hanson – Beragampengetahuan
Prediction markets are financial markets, but compared to typical financial markets they are intended more to aggregate info than to hedge risks. Thus we can use our general understanding of financial markets to understand prediction markets, and can also try to apply whatever we learn about prediction markets to financial markets more generally. With this […]
My Fertility Posts – by Robin Hanson – Beragampengetahuan
These are my blog posts on fertility, in reverse chronological order: Jan 21: Are We A Tower of Babel? Amish-like who repopulate Earth my see our civ as like a Tower of Babel. This helps us see what they might retain from us. Jan 17: Five Fertility Fails: 5 attitudes that keep us from solving […]
Stasis is Illiberal – by Robin Hanson – Beragampengetahuan
A stereotypical “illiberal” society is culturally and socially static and conservative, tightly bound internally, and suspicious of outsiders. Each is run by a coalition of elites who maintain strong discretionary control over key areas: government, law, commerce, religion, culture, and public talk. Such societies can react in swift, decisive, and unified ways to external military […]
Vet Abstractions – by Robin Hanson – Beragampengetahuan
Our brains are organized in substantial part by levels of abstraction. Brain layers go from those connected directly to outside, to layers that attend to fine details of both inferences and plans, to layers that attend to larger scale aggregates and distant sparsely-described things, up to layers that manage our most highest level summaries and […]
Resenting The Resentful – by Robin Hanson – Beragampengetahuan
In the human world before civilization, there were moral norms, but not law. In that world, people were taught how they should ideally enforce moral rules. If B harms A in violation of local moral norms, and if A confronting B gives an inadequate response, then A should tell near associates about it, and this group […]
Honing Fertility Fall Theories – by Robin Hanson – Beragampengetahuan
Richard Hanania has done me the honor of carefully thinking through my & other fertility theories, finding consequences and data tests I didn’t think of. If you have time, go read him first, then come back here. He calls my status theory “Kings and Queens” (KAQ), and interprets it as suggesting a wealth threshold effects. […]