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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 […]
No Animals Were Harmed: American Humane CEO Robin Ganzert – Wisdom From The Top with Guy Raz – Beragampengetahuan
107. A New Way to Think: Roger Martin 42:15 Over a career spanning four decades, Roger Martin has been a management consultant, an influential business strategy thinker and author, as well as the Dean of the Rotman School of Management at University of Toronto. He advises CEOs of global companies such as Ford, Proctor & […]
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. […]
Prince For President – by Robin Hanson – Beragampengetahuan
The series finale of the TV show Billions just dropped today. Its Metacritic score started at 69 in S1, peaked at 87 in S4, then ended at 62 in S7. I’ve enjoyed it especially as “competence porn” where I get to admire people who are very good at what they do. I also enjoyed the […]
A Fertility Reckoning – by Robin Hanson – Beragampengetahuan
Those who consume too much alcohol or other recreational drugs often make excuses. Like “I’m no worse than many others”, “I still manage to get to work most days”, or “Let’s wait til my problem gets worse, like I can no longer walk”, or “They’ll soon make a version without bad side effects”. Such folks […]
Origins of Woke – by Robin Hanson – Beragampengetahuan
Even his harshest critics seem to agree that Richard Hanania’s great new book The Origins of Woke, released today, offers the most plausible and detailed historical explanation yet of the rise of woke. (Such critics still insist without good reason that his book is racist and sexist.) His story: While Congress banned “discrimination” based on […]
Regulating Tech – by Robin Hanson – Beragampengetahuan
Not sure exactly why, but one of its authors sent me the book Data Science in Context: Foundations, Challenges, Opportunities. The chapter of most interest to me is ch. 7, on regulation, which highlights these recommendations: 4. Regulate uses not technology 5. Regulate clear, not potential, problems 6. Update laws with data science and technology […]