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Status (part 3)

elephant hunting & egalitarian opulence

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a. natasha joukovsky
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Hello! This is an unplanned third installment to (what is now) a little series on status. Here’s the first, and the second:

Status (part 2)

a. natasha joukovsky
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July 8, 2024
Status (part 2)

Welcome new subscribers; this is the second of a two-part post. Here’s the first (coincidentally a nice introduction to quite useless):

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X. Honest deception

Could art’s deceptive honesty spring directly from the mirror nature of our minds? Our evolutionary tendency to self-deceive is the titular elephant of Kevin Simler and Robin Hanson’s The Elephant in the Brain: Hi…

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