
Robin Hanson
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The Importance of the Sacred
I got it into my head that I've been proposing many institutional changes and meeting opposition that's somewhat puzzling. And so I thought, let's figure this thing out. What is the sacred? How does it work? Where does it come from? He came up with a simple story that draws on this psychology set of phenomena called construal level theory. When we see or think about anything, we have a range of seeing it near versus far.
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