🧩 Philosophy Oct 4, 2026 · Robin Hanson

Five Slogans Re Cultural Drift

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I’m wondering how well I might organize my cultural drift messages around a few key slogans. Consider the following slogans as placeholders for better worded versions.1. Adaptation Needs Variation, Selection, & StabilityHumanity’s superpower is cultural evolution. But such Darwinian evolution fails without sufficient variation or selection pressures, or if the context changes too fast. A few centuries ago we were fine; the world had 100Ks of peasant cultures, most facing frequen

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