Tag Archives: Robin Hanson
The Partial Spectator: What Makes Stories Interesting
Robin Hanson has some thought-provoking posts up about storytelling. He points to some research involving an evolutionary explanation for why certain stories appeal to us, why we recoil from certain kinds of antagonists, and why certain heroes lift our spirits. … Continue reading
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The Meta Shock Value
Sometime before the First World War, ohhhhh, no need to be exact, let’s say about 1910, Virginia Woolf concluded that human nature changed. Like an asteroid laying waste to a whole species, she and others felt the conditions of modernity … Continue reading
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