Rachell Powell
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first heard Jan 2026
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all of the causal levers that go into human moral psychology development and evolution like even if we sort of knew what that big picture story looked like or at least the key the key aspects of it we might still be feckless to do anything about it because of the just the way emer these emergent patterns you know like so we we might know the playbook of a demagogue
But that doesn't mean we're gonna be able to successfully battle it.
And that's the scary thing, right?
Now, of course, you're dealing with social media problems and other things which create new problems.
So it's kind of an arms race between parasitic demagoguery
that could stand to benefit in some narrow way from moral regression.
And I hate to say something tropey, but it's like, you know, the light of reason and, you know, et cetera, et cetera.
And, you know, like we're,
Reason is powerful, and empathy is powerful, but it's limited, and it could be steered in the wrong directions very quickly.
And you're right to say, I think, that these gains are fragile because we're susceptible
Um, and that's what, I mean, you know, that is what we're seeing.
We're, we're looking right now down the barrel of the fragility of our institutions.
Yeah.
Big time.
And it is easy to take them for granted.
And, you know, maybe we'll get to a point in human history where they're
where we reach a level of stability that we're a lot more comfortable with.
But right now it is quite precarious.
Like we honestly don't, I would not have said this like 15 years ago, but like, you know, I really don't know where we're going to be 30 years from now.
I really don't.
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