Comments on: OB Ads? http://www.overcomingbias.com/2009/12/ob-ads.html Overcoming Bias is economist Robin Hanson’s blog, on honesty, signaling, disagreement, forecasting, and the far future. Sat, 11 Feb 2012 18:23:51 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 By: Oliver http://www.overcomingbias.com/2009/12/ob-ads.html#comment-438286 Oliver Sun, 13 Dec 2009 08:21:00 +0000 http://www.overcomingbias.com/?p=20724#comment-438286 Now that you bring this up, I would actively encourage garish ads here on OB if we got unintended, humorous juxtapositions on a consistent enough basis. Now that you bring this up, I would actively encourage garish ads here on OB if we got unintended, humorous juxtapositions on a consistent enough basis.

]]> By: Oliver http://www.overcomingbias.com/2009/12/ob-ads.html#comment-438285 Oliver Sun, 13 Dec 2009 08:17:37 +0000 http://www.overcomingbias.com/?p=20724#comment-438285 Robin, now that you've asked, I'd only really care if ads significantly hurt your page load time and browser stability. By this I mean: please, please use flash sparingly. Please. Robin, now that you’ve asked, I’d only really care if ads significantly hurt your page load time and browser stability. By this I mean: please, please use flash sparingly. Please.

]]> By: gwern http://www.overcomingbias.com/2009/12/ob-ads.html#comment-438179 gwern Fri, 11 Dec 2009 16:11:54 +0000 http://www.overcomingbias.com/?p=20724#comment-438179 I do not care. As the others say, as an economist I almost expect you to - at the very least - recoup hosting costs. And since I have good ad-blockers, it will never affect me. Nor will I feel particularly outraged as I only contribute occasional comments. If LessWrong or Wikipedia were to start running ads, though... I do not care. As the others say, as an economist I almost expect you to – at the very least – recoup hosting costs. And since I have good ad-blockers, it will never affect me.

Nor will I feel particularly outraged as I only contribute occasional comments. If LessWrong or Wikipedia were to start running ads, though…

]]> By: Phil Goetz http://www.overcomingbias.com/2009/12/ob-ads.html#comment-437780 Phil Goetz Mon, 07 Dec 2009 19:46:54 +0000 http://www.overcomingbias.com/?p=20724#comment-437780 I would think less of you as a free-market economist if you refused to put ads on your blog. I would think less of you as a free-market economist if you refused to put ads on your blog.

]]> By: mac http://www.overcomingbias.com/2009/12/ob-ads.html#comment-437632 mac Sun, 06 Dec 2009 04:15:09 +0000 http://www.overcomingbias.com/?p=20724#comment-437632 are you a professor or an entrepreneur? Are these mutually exclusive? are you a professor or an entrepreneur? Are these mutually exclusive?

]]> By: Matthew Fallshaw http://www.overcomingbias.com/2009/12/ob-ads.html#comment-437554 Matthew Fallshaw Sat, 05 Dec 2009 00:44:15 +0000 http://www.overcomingbias.com/?p=20724#comment-437554 +1 +1

]]> By: Steve Roth http://www.overcomingbias.com/2009/12/ob-ads.html#comment-437464 Steve Roth Fri, 04 Dec 2009 15:15:25 +0000 http://www.overcomingbias.com/?p=20724#comment-437464 What would be an unfakeably honest signal that ads would not affect your editorial? I can't think of one, but I bet there's one out there... What would be an unfakeably honest signal that ads would not affect your editorial? I can’t think of one, but I bet there’s one out there…

]]> By: Stuart Armstrong http://www.overcomingbias.com/2009/12/ob-ads.html#comment-437455 Stuart Armstrong Fri, 04 Dec 2009 12:21:48 +0000 http://www.overcomingbias.com/?p=20724#comment-437455 <blockquote>I have not accepted any compensation for anything I’ve done on this blog. But folks keep offering to pay me to put their ads on this blog. I wonder: am I being too prudish? Presumably the more money I make blogging, the more I’ll blog.</blockquote> I'd prefer you blogged less, but blogged better (your best articles are incomparably good, but a lot of them are like drive-by shootings: a random spray of bullets at some subject, without getting out of the car or stopping to see what you were aiming at). Since adds would make you presumably blog more, I'd be against them.

I have not accepted any compensation for anything I’ve done on this blog. But folks keep offering to pay me to put their ads on this blog. I wonder: am I being too prudish? Presumably the more money I make blogging, the more I’ll blog.

I’d prefer you blogged less, but blogged better (your best articles are incomparably good, but a lot of them are like drive-by shootings: a random spray of bullets at some subject, without getting out of the car or stopping to see what you were aiming at). Since adds would make you presumably blog more, I’d be against them.

]]> By: Prolorn http://www.overcomingbias.com/2009/12/ob-ads.html#comment-437447 Prolorn Fri, 04 Dec 2009 09:34:03 +0000 http://www.overcomingbias.com/?p=20724#comment-437447 "Why does it depend on how much money you are being offered?" Why wouldn't it? If offered sufficiently high compensation, I'm sure Robin Hanson would run any legal ad. Enough donations to an appropriate charitable cause could offset any harm from a simple ad, surely. Hmm, maybe even illegal-but-ethical ads, for absurd compensation... ? ;) “Why does it depend on how much money you are being offered?”

Why wouldn’t it? If offered sufficiently high compensation, I’m sure Robin Hanson would run any legal ad.
Enough donations to an appropriate charitable cause could offset any harm from a simple ad, surely.

Hmm, maybe even illegal-but-ethical ads, for absurd compensation… ? ;)

]]> By: Erich http://www.overcomingbias.com/2009/12/ob-ads.html#comment-437401 Erich Thu, 03 Dec 2009 20:09:19 +0000 http://www.overcomingbias.com/?p=20724#comment-437401 Ads would not change my OB consumption. I enjoy the content here and greatly appreciate the effort you exert to provide this material to the public at large. Ads would not change my OB consumption. I enjoy the content here and greatly appreciate the effort you exert to provide this material to the public at large.

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