The problems of the 21st century in one sentence. I am, of course, super-optimistic. 
We can make a far better future - in part by improving our institutions, and by better understanding our emotions. To quote @starsandrobots: "The future is STILL unwritten".https://twitter.com/ShaneAParrish/status/853034382436597760 …
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I'd say it's more like: we have pathetically crude technology, don't appreciate our miraculous institutions, and blame errors on emotions, 'biases', and other alleged defects.
It can be true that we don't sufficiently appreciate our institutions, and also that they're extremely primitive compared to what is possible. I suspect one day they'll look like flint axes.
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Very curious about your phrase "alleged defects". What do you think is the right way to think about emotions, biases etc?
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(I largely agree about technology: from a particular vantage point it's godlike, but from the viewpoint of 12018 CE it will look like flint axes...)
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Yes. We still don't know how to do without a penal system, for instance. Or taxes. And don't even get me started about education. However, it's true of everything we have that it'll look like flint axes one day.
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Our institutions are neither primitive nor medieval... Really cool Dittmar paper on Reformation, health, institutions, progress (brilliant data shocker in it)https://voxeu.org/article/protestant-reformation-economic-institutions-and-development …
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