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Cul­tural evolution

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Cultural evolution is the process through which non-genetic information is transmitted from one generation of humans to the next.

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cultural lag | cultural persistence | trajectory change | value drift

Notes on Hen­rich’s “The WEIRDest Peo­ple in the World” (2020)

MichaelA🔸Mar 25, 2021, 5:04 AM
44 points
4 comments3 min readEA link

[Link] Book Re­view: The Se­cret Of Our Suc­cess | Slate Star Codex

arikrJun 5, 2019, 9:29 PM
34 points
5 comments1 min readEA link

Paradigm Shifts—change ev­ery­thing… ex­cept al­most everything

Non-zero-sum JamesNov 26, 2024, 5:04 PM
2 points
1 comment3 min readEA link
(nonzerosum.games)

The promises of work­ing on cul­tural change to move for­ward an­i­mal welfare

YvesBonJul 2, 2024, 5:33 AM
13 points
5 comments17 min readEA link

The Evolu­tion to­wards the Blank Slate

Arturo MaciasJun 10, 2024, 3:17 PM
3 points
1 comment3 min readEA link

Evolu­tion pro­vides no ev­i­dence for the sharp left turn

Quintin PopeApr 11, 2023, 6:48 PM
43 points
2 comments1 min readEA link

Progress book recommendations

Daniel MayAug 8, 2019, 8:47 PM
73 points
7 comments16 min readEA link
(danielmamay.github.io)

Good al­tru­is­tic de­ci­sion-mak­ing as a deep basin of at­trac­tion in meme-space

Owen Cotton-BarrattJan 1, 2021, 5:11 PM
31 points
8 comments3 min readEA link

New Cause: Ra­dio Ads Against Cousin Mar­riage in LMIC

Jackson WagnerAug 15, 2022, 5:36 PM
27 points
4 comments7 min readEA link

De­tailed notes on 20 EA-rele­vant/​recom­mended books

Calvin_BakerFeb 27, 2021, 5:09 PM
24 points
2 comments1 min readEA link

Every­day Longtermism

Owen Cotton-BarrattJan 1, 2021, 5:39 PM
159 points
29 comments9 min readEA link

What can we learn from the em­piri­cal so­cial sci­ence liter­a­ture on the ex­pected con­tin­gency of value change?

jackvaDec 7, 2022, 11:40 AM
56 points
1 comment4 min readEA link

Long-Term In­fluence and Move­ment Growth: Two His­tor­i­cal Case Studies

Aron_VallinderDec 13, 2018, 7:03 PM
58 points
9 comments1 min readEA link

#168 – Whether deep his­tory says we’re head­ing for an in­tel­li­gence ex­plo­sion (Ian Mor­ris on the 80,000 Hours Pod­cast)

80000_HoursOct 24, 2023, 3:24 PM
11 points
2 comments18 min readEA link

Why we may ex­pect our suc­ces­sors not to care about suffering

Jim BuhlerJul 10, 2023, 1:54 PM
65 points
31 comments8 min readEA link

What val­ues will con­trol the Fu­ture? Overview, con­clu­sion, and di­rec­tions for fu­ture work

Jim BuhlerJul 18, 2023, 4:11 PM
27 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

Pre­dict­ing what fu­ture peo­ple value: A terse in­tro­duc­tion to Ax­iolog­i­cal Futurism

Jim BuhlerMar 24, 2023, 7:15 PM
62 points
10 comments2 min readEA link

What the Mo­ral Truth might be makes no differ­ence to what will happen

Jim BuhlerApr 9, 2023, 5:43 PM
40 points
9 comments3 min readEA link

[Question] I’m in­ter­view­ing the au­thor of ‘Not Born Yes­ter­day’ — Hugo Mercier. He ar­gues peo­ple are less gullible and more savvy than you think. What should I ask him?

Robert_WiblinNov 17, 2023, 5:43 PM
12 points
3 comments1 min readEA link

The Con­ver­gent Path to the Stars—Similar Utility Across Civ­i­liza­tions Challenges Ex­tinc­tion Prioritization

Maxime Riché 🔸Mar 18, 2025, 5:09 PM
6 points
1 comment20 min readEA link

The Grabby Values Selec­tion Th­e­sis: What val­ues do space-far­ing civ­i­liza­tions plau­si­bly have?

Jim BuhlerMay 6, 2023, 7:28 PM
48 points
12 comments4 min readEA link

“Arc­tic In­stincts? The uni­ver­sal prin­ci­ples of Arc­tic psy­cholog­i­cal adap­ta­tion and the ori­gins of East Asian psy­chol­ogy”—Call for Re­view­ers (Seeds of Science)

rogersbacon1Feb 16, 2024, 3:28 PM
2 points
0 comments2 min readEA link

AI & wis­dom 3: AI effects on amor­tised optimisation

L Rudolf LOct 29, 2024, 1:37 PM
14 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(rudolf.website)

Epistemic Hell

rogersbacon1Jan 27, 2024, 5:17 PM
10 points
1 comment14 min readEA link
(www.secretorum.life)

The effec­tive and the unequivocal

idea21Dec 23, 2024, 7:19 PM
−1 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

Altru­is­tic Econ­omy and Altru­is­tic Behavior

idea21Feb 24, 2025, 12:34 AM
2 points
2 comments3 min readEA link

Altru­ism and Minor­ity In­fluence

idea21Mar 10, 2025, 12:29 AM
8 points
0 comments3 min readEA link