Robin Hanson - We Broke Humanity’s Superpower

Our Big Oops: We Broke Humanity’s Superpower - Humanity’s superpower is cultural evolution. Which still goes great for behaviors that can easily vary locally, like most tech and business practices. But modernity has plausibly broken our evolution of shared norms and values, as that needs natural selection of whole cultures. We now have less variety, weaker selection pressures, and faster changes from context and cultural activism. Our options to fix are neither easy nor attractive. Talk at Future Day 2025. Also search for the panel on AI consciousness which Robin participated in. #culturalevolution #CulturalDrift #FutureDay Many thanks for tuning in! Please support SciFuture by subscribing and sharing! Buy me a coffee? https://buymeacoffee.com/tech101z Have any ideas about people to interview? Want to be notified about future events? Any comments about the STF series? Please fill out this form: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1mr9PIfq2ZYlQsXRIn5BcLH2onbiSI7g79mOH_AFCdIk/ Kind regards, Adam Ford - Science, Technology & the Future - #SciFuture - http://scifuture.org