Comments on: A Tale Of Two Tradeoffs

By: Overcoming Bias : Is Selfless Evil Far?

Overcoming Bias : Is Selfless Evil Far? — Wed, 07 Sep 2011 01:55:47 +0000

[...] far mode thoughts tend to have weaker decision consequences, I’ve suggested that far mode is better adapted to managing social images, relative to making helpful choices. This [...]

By: Overcoming Bias : Two-Faced Brains

Overcoming Bias : Two-Faced Brains — Mon, 11 Apr 2011 12:26:29 +0000

[...] previously discussed one solution: have the different sets of opinions apply to different topics. For example, hold [...]

By: Overcoming Bias : Beware Commitment

Overcoming Bias : Beware Commitment — Thu, 30 Dec 2010 12:34:38 +0000

[...] social, our forager ancestors evolved especially divergent near and far minds. Far minds could emphasize presenting an idealized image to others, while near minds could focus on managing our less visible [...]

By: Mere end folkeaktivisme « Liberator

Mere end folkeaktivisme « Liberator — Fri, 10 Dec 2010 23:27:08 +0000

[...] fra at kigge langt væk fra til at kigge tæt på, se Robin Hansons diskussion af forskellen i “A Tale of Two Tradeoffs” og “Abstrakt/Distant Future Bias”. Forskellen dækkes også i Daniel Gilberts [...]

By: Overcoming Bias : Deathbed Regret Is Far

Overcoming Bias : Deathbed Regret Is Far — Wed, 24 Nov 2010 16:29:37 +0000

[...] that deathbed regrets arise from taking a far view of our lives. The far mental mode is more happy, social, and idealistic, and the above regrets express a commitment to the ideals of happiness, friend and [...]

By: Overcoming Bias: Near and Far Thinking | danielmiessler.com

Overcoming Bias: Near and Far Thinking | danielmiessler.com — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 05:51:30 +0000

[...] Near and Far Thinking (A Tale of Two Tradeoffs) | overcomingbias.com ] Related PostsOvercoming Bias: Show-Off BiasOvercoming Bias: Semantic [...]

By: Overcoming Bias : Fear of Near Death Thoughts

Overcoming Bias : Fear of Near Death Thoughts — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 04:31:18 +0000

[...] would succeed a lot more. Instead, however, we fear thinking about our own death, especially in near mode. Near mode favors practical analytical reasoning, while far mode favors symbolic creative [...]

By: Overcoming Bias : This is the Dream Time

Overcoming Bias : This is the Dream Time — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 17:21:06 +0000

[...] a near mode designed more for practical concrete reasoning about things up close, and a far mode designed more for presenting a good image to others via our abstract reasoning about things far away. But our [...]

By: Just how many people are you, anyway? « Robert Wiblin

Just how many people are you, anyway? « Robert Wiblin — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 02:55:33 +0000

[...] Robin Hanson proposes that the image and action parts of the brain are more integrated and different triggers [...]

By: Nick Tarleton

Nick Tarleton — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 20:30:10 +0000

I don’t know what happened there – the URL was http://www.economist.com/science/displaystory.cfm?story_id=12971028 .