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Bookmark or Share- Visiting Death - by Robin Hanson - Overcoming BiasWhy must you ever retire from thinking and writing and personal growth? Why didn’t you write on this trip?
- A Fertility Reckoning - by Robin Hanson - Overcoming BiasIt’s not so much that humanity might go extinct, though that is a real concern, but that the most likely identifiable scenario by which fertility will rise again is via the growth of currently-small insular high-fertility subgroups like the Amish and Orthodox Jews. Similar to how Christians came to dominate the Roman Empire.
- On Value Drift - by Robin Hanson - Overcoming BiasGrowth – On average, over time civilization collects more total influence over most everything. Competition – If some values consistently win key competitive contests, those values become more common. Influence Drift – Many processes that change the world produce random drift in agent influence.
- Stubborn Attachments - by Robin Hanson - Overcoming BiasMore “investment” and “growth”, that’s it?! We actually know of many more specific ways to encourage choices that promote long term growth, but they mostly come at substantial costs. I don’t how much you actually support faster long-term growth until I hear which such policies you’ll support.
- Murphy on Growth Limits - by Robin Hanson - Overcoming BiasPhysicist Tom Murphy says he argued with “an established economics professor from a prestigious institution,” on whether economic growth can continue forever.
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