🧩 Philosophy Oct 26, 2026 · Robin Hanson

Skinner, Cattell, Stewart, Wilson on Deliberate Culture

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Skinner, Cattell, Stewart, Wilson on Deliberate Culture
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My analysis of cultural drift has (at least) three distinctive elements:We have a big problem: we broke our process for the evolution of (not in) cultures.Instead of reviving blind evolution, it might be better to evolve deliberatelyI have three concrete ideas for institutional mechanisms of deliberate evolution.I asked an LLM for book authors who have also made my #2 point, on deliberate cultural evolution. It gave 4: Skinner (’71), Cattell (‘87), Stewart (’00), Wilson (&#8217

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