🧩 Philosophy May 17, 2026 · Robin Hanson

Past & Future of Good & Evil

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Sometime in the last few million years, our ancestors began to get better brains, use tools and weapons, speak language, and live in larger groups in a wider range of environments. A big key to all this was cultural natural selection. Though at first DNA and cultural evolution often pushed in different directions, the fact that culture could drive change so much faster let culture tame DNA, and induce it to make us especially plastic and receptive to culture.Early on, sufficient brains, culture,

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