Robin Hanson Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

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"Within the next century [our machines] will mature into entitities as complex as ourselves, and eventually into something transcending everything we know - in whom we can take pride when they refer to themselves as our descendants." Hans Moravec, Mind Children, p1. https://t.co/IYAKWOl227

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Finished all 30 episodes of Three Body Problem TV series. (Also read books long ago.) I applaud mood of respect for science, progress & civ, rare in sf now. It also well shows temptation to green fury & hope hi tech civ must be kind to us. More realistic than most sf, yet .. https://t.co/hW6jLSPOXZ

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I'm honored that he signs his post this way: "Andrew Potter is the author of On Decline: Stagnation, Nostalgia, and Why Every Year is the Worst One Ever, a book that draws heavily on a brilliant blogpost by Robin Hanson."

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Rewatching Chris Pine's Star Trek, I'm struck by the bizarre claim that Spock & other Vulcans somehow don't express or feel emotions. They seem to me obviously dripping with emotions. How did anyone ever think otherwise?

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"The germs of existence contained in this earth, if they could freely develope themselves, would fill millions of worlds in the course of a few thousand years." Thomas Malthus, An Essay on the Principle of Population.

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"The more precise question should have been to ask – which the author doesn’t ask – what *function* does the feeling of awe serve? Why should humans have evolved that? … how do people who experience awe have an advantage over people who don’t?" https://t.co/w1RJUGmYOg

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If you've read @bryan_caplan's book The Case Against Education, by how many years did this cut your ideal years-of-education plan for your kids?

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"The germs of existence contained in this earth, if they could freely develope themselves, would fill millions of worlds in the course of a few thousand years." Thomas Malthus, An Essay on the Principle of Population.

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"Hierarchy in the Forest: … the most important book about hunter-gatherers. I first learned of this book on Robin Hanson’s blog, where he wrote a brief but glowing post titled 'Hail Christopher Boehm.'” I'm proud to have helped @robkhenderson see this. https://t.co/Zs2qnA4NXE

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Indeed: "The central claim of Jacob Stegenga’s Medical Nihilism is that confidence in the effectiveness of medical interventions is far higher than it should be." https://t.co/nyXJzM59lo