Robin Hanson

Apr 11, 2024 | quillette.com | Justo Antonio Triana |Joan Smith |Robin Hanson |Charlotte Allen

In December 2021, Walnier Luis Aguilar Rivera was sentenced to 23 years in prison by a Cuban court for participating in the mass protests of July 11 and 12. He was 21 years old when he began his sentence and he’s the father of two young daughters. According to a report in Foreign Policy:[On July 11], tens of thousands of people took to the streets across the island to protest skyrocketing prices of essential goods. It was the largest event of civil unrest in Cuba since the 1990s.

Apr 11, 2024 | quillette.com | Robin Hanson |Helen Pluckrose |Lawrence Krauss |John Lloyd

Everyone without exception believes his own native customs, and the religion he was brought up in, to be the best. ~Herodotus circa. 440 BCE Who or what do you most trust? You might think it’s your parents, spouse, or a teacher. But in fact, you most trust your culture, as you are part of a species, humans, with the superpower of cultural evolution. So as a kid, you eagerly accepted most of what your prestigious associates said, especially if they had long agreed on it.

Aug 8, 2023 | quillette.com | Steve Salerno |Brent M. Kious |Margaret Pabst Battin |Robin Hanson

Historically, the knock on psychotherapy has been that it’s a pseudoscience perpetrated by overeducated life coaches. Their insights are so arbitrary and insubstantial that they can render diametric judgments under oath about the risks posed to society by the same accused serial killer. Jaundiced perceptions aside, therapy’s role in modern life is no joke. America is a nation increasingly surrendering itself to the therapist’s couch.

May 27, 2023 | allevents.in | Robin Hanson

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