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Robin Hanson: Status and Our Forager Future

From the New World

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Are We Scared of Change?

The United States in World War II. Early on was an exception in that the leadership was scared and willing to actually change a bunch of stuff. That seems somewhat separate from the overall problem of academia that it's just not very well aligned, but fundamentally something like academia is capable of being turned toward other purposes.

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