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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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.
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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Biases are features of the weighted-ideas theory of thinking which is false. What emotions do depends on ideas. So it's all about ideas.
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People often see emotions as primitive. But if one looks at *what* things people feel happy, angry or frightened about most of them didn't exist in Palaeolithic - or even in 1200.
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