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Robin Hanson: How Global Elites Manufactured Stagnation and How We Escape

From the New World

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The Elephant in the Brain

People often give concrete and specific reasons for their choice. Pairs of women with different hair colours or styles, subjects realized they had been deceived only about a third of the time. It suggests we feel a strong obligation to be able to explain what we've been doing and why rtiYou might think at some point it's none of your business what i'm doing... but you really are devoting a big chunk of your mental energy all the time to making sure you've got a good justification. And you're quite ready to do that if on asked, right?

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