Welcome to Overcoming Bias!
Overcoming Bias began in November ’06 as a group blog on the general theme of how to move our beliefs closer to reality, in the face of our natural biases such as overconfidence and wishful thinking, and our bias to believe we have corrected for such biases, when we have done no such thing.
While we had a few dozen authors, most posts came from myself, Robin Hanson, and my fantastic co-blogger, Eliezer Yudkowsky. The topics eventually drifted more widely, and early in ’09 Eliezer decided to move to a new sister blog, Less Wrong. I decided this was a good time to convert this to be my personal blog. My colleague Tyler Cowen had warned me from the start that blogs were best defined not by topic but by lead author personalities, and well, I’d learned he was right.
So while Overcoming Bias will no doubt continue to discuss many of the same topics, I will no longer feel constrained by topic. While I may allow guest posts from time to time (Eliezer will always be welcome), this is now just my personal blog, where I’ll post on whatever I like.
Disclaimers:
While I am affiliated with several organizations, and I list them as “supporting” Overcoming Bias, none have paid me to blog, and none necessarily endorse any views expressed here. We’ve never sold ads or access in any way. Copyright is retained by each author.
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