By Spencer Greenberg and Amber Dawn Ace
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This is the third of five posts in my sequence of essays about my life philosophy, Valuism - here are the first, second, fourth, and fifth parts (though the links won’t work until those other essays are released).
Sometimes, people take an important value - maybe their most important value - and decide to prioritize it above all other things. They neglect or ignore their other values in the process. In ...
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sustainability
Ten Skills Our Civilization Needs
Here are ten skills I believe our civilization needs, if we hope to create an amazing world instead of a dumpster fire.
1. Evidence evaluation
Converging on a valid consensus about what’s true based on evidence/argument (e.g., being able to converge as a society on questions like "climate change real, how bad will it get if we don't act, and how quickly?").
2. Coordination
Developing and applying mechanisms to avoid collective action problems (e.g., working to make it in nobody’s in...
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