Comments on: Abstract/Distant Future Bias

By: Luke Parrish

Luke Parrish — Tue, 08 Mar 2011 00:52:57 +0000

It strikes me that perhaps one reason cryonics does not sell so well is that survival (and medical treatment in general) is a near-mode concern whereas the advent of future technology required for reanimation or uploading is far-mode. Furthermore, it tends to attract “outliers” who think differently from normal about what is far versus near.

By: Overcoming Bias : Coherent Futures

Overcoming Bias : Coherent Futures — Thu, 23 Dec 2010 01:25:27 +0000

[...] about current issues. Furthermore, when people do actually directly discuss the far future, they tend to engage in an extreme far-think, vs. a more practical [...]

By: Overcoming Bias : Disagreement Is Near-Far Bias

Overcoming Bias : Disagreement Is Near-Far Bias — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 19:50:18 +0000

[...] Liberman and Yaacov Trope on their awkwardly-named "Construal level theory", and wrote a post I estimated "to be the most dense with useful info on identifying our biases I've ever [...]

By: Roko

Roko — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 18:46:18 +0000

This post should be tagged near/far, as it is hard to find, and I believe it is the seminal post on the near mode/far mode dichotomy.

By: Stuff White People Like on Signaling – false symmetry

Stuff White People Like on Signaling – false symmetry — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 01:04:09 +0000

[...] a recent one I enjoyed that seems to be about Robin Hanson’s near/far biases and preference for visible signaling: …white people in places like Los Angeles or Austin, TX [...]

By: Certainly Uncertain « Hegemonicon

Certainly Uncertain « Hegemonicon — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 03:36:47 +0000

[...] more on near/far bias, see here: http://www.overcomingbias.com/2008/11/abstractdistant.html Comments [...]

By: Continued comments for “Wars we know” « Entitled to an Opinion

Continued comments for “Wars we know” « Entitled to an Opinion — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 02:45:01 +0000

[...] came in swarms, the isolationists were one-offs Though I myself share your take, that sets off warning signs. I’m sure there were plenty of interventionists who were horrible in their own quirky [...]

By: Backup Brain » Blog Archive » Our biases about the future

Backup Brain » Blog Archive » Our biases about the future — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 18:26:57 +0000

[...] This post by Robin Hanson strikes me as a gold mine of opportunities for concept design: We seem primed to confidently see history as an inevitable march toward a theory-predicted global conflict with an alien united them determined to oppose our core symbolic values, making infeasible overly-risky overconfident plans to oppose them. We seem primed to neglect the value and prospect of trillions of quirky future creatures not fundamentally that different from us, focused on their simple day-to-day pleasures, mostly getting along peacefully in vastly-varied uncoordinated and hard-to-predict local cultures and life-styles. [...]

By: Future Discounting and Clone Armies. « Hegemonicon

Future Discounting and Clone Armies. « Hegemonicon — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 00:49:03 +0000

[...] is my (admittedly esoteric) way of fighting future discounting. The human brain has a tendency to overvalue our current preferences and undervalue our [...]

By: Karl Fraser

Karl Fraser — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 08:16:48 +0000

This relates, albeit tangentially, to something I wrote on my Ernst Jünger blog, “Living in no man´s land”.

http://ernst-juenger.blogspot.com/2009/03/living-in-no-mans-land.html

Karl Fraser