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#292 – Robin Hanson: Alien Civilizations, UFOs, and the Future of Humanity

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Is There a Robust Way to Have More Recesses?

We reproduce as the result of a hodgepodge of preferences that aren't very well integrated. In our ancestral environment, they did induce us to have more descendants. But those packages of preferences are not a robust way to promote having more children. We can predict that in the longer run, there will arise creatures who just abstractly know that what they want is more kids. That's a very robust way to have more grandchildren.

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