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Opacity Blocks Agreement
Years ago, I spent a big chunk of my intellectual career studying the rationality of disagreement, mostly via math modeling, but also some lab…
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Recalibrating Respect
When the US and USSR came out victorious at the end of WWII, the world recalibrated its respect. That is, many correctly inferred that this win…
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Evidence Order Bias
When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things. (Bible) “83…
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Frank’s Book Of Little Aliens
In his new book Little Book of Aliens, astrophysicist Adam Frank says that we now know almost nothing about aliens, but we will soon learn much more…
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After Eating It, Software Will Bite The World
Software is eating the world. … All of the technology required to transform industries through software finally works and can be widely delivered at…
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Choose: Cultural or Bayesian Morality
One of humanity’s key superpowers is our cultural plasticity: we change our species by each of us as kids copying the adults around us. We can…
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Honing Fertility Fall Theories
Richard Hanania has done me the honor of carefully thinking through my & other fertility theories, finding consequences and data tests I didn't think…
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Overcoming Bias
Overcoming Bias
This is a blog on why we believe and do what we do, why we pretend otherwise, how we might do better, and what our descendants might do, if they don't all die.
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