Very good! Hoping to see—weakly intending to commit—a post list of his latest boom (fertility decline, which lead him to culture). I attended one of Robin’s Zoom meetings on culture, and I’m confident it is on par with his other great fixations thus far (prediction markets, signaling, ems and aliens) if not even bigger. Robin seems absolutely possessed by the phenomenon.
For those who do not follow him: Robin has begun seeing culture as broken/maladaptive, and he seems to think this is perhaps the key issue of our time, on par or bigger than climate change and AI. He thinks that cultural change is driven into directions which will eventually lead to population decline and nasty places, even though he remains optimistic on our species’ future in the long run.
Very good! Hoping to see—weakly intending to commit—a post list of his latest boom (fertility decline, which lead him to culture). I attended one of Robin’s Zoom meetings on culture, and I’m confident it is on par with his other great fixations thus far (prediction markets, signaling, ems and aliens) if not even bigger. Robin seems absolutely possessed by the phenomenon.
For those who do not follow him: Robin has begun seeing culture as broken/maladaptive, and he seems to think this is perhaps the key issue of our time, on par or bigger than climate change and AI. He thinks that cultural change is driven into directions which will eventually lead to population decline and nasty places, even though he remains optimistic on our species’ future in the long run.
Are you aware of anyone else working on the same topic?
This is not novel to Hanson, it’s been a staple of (neo)reactionary /conservative thought for millenia.