🧩 Philosophy Oct 16, 2026 · Robin Hanson

Prefer Evolved To Folk Morality

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Prefer Evolved To Folk Morality
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Individuals often have good reasons to indulge in delusions, such as re superstition, astrology, religion, or their own personal destiny. But society usually has less of a reason to indulge them in its policy analysis. For example, we shouldn’t be funding larger institutions of research to elaborate astrological theories. And even if people find value in their folk physics, folk econ, or folk psych, researchers shouldn’t be working to extend these frameworks, though we might want to

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