Richard Dawkins
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Inside and Outside Perspectives on Institutions
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4fbB1_k8dI4 The screenshot here is from a movie called They Live. The guy gets a magical set of glasses that when he puts them on he can see through all of his society’s institutions. And this is not a wonderful thing; in fact this is kind of a horrifying thing. And . . .
Why Do New Atheists Hate Group Selection?
Richard Dawkins’ best-known scientific achievement is popularizing the theory of gene-level selection in his book The Selfish Gene. Gene-level selection stands apart from both traditional individual-level selection and group-level selection as an explanation for human cooperation. Steven Pinker, similarly, wrote a long article on the “false allure” of group selection . . .