Overcoming Bias

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November 2024

Love And War And Status
“All is Fair in Love and War” - common saying
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Robin Hanson
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Futarchy Futurism
I have often taken on the role of econ futurist, analyzing the social consequences of particular future techs.
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Robin Hanson
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No Meta Status Orgs
In health and medicine, we have many government agencies, and private philanthropies, devoted to many specific medical conditions, and also to studying…
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Robin Hanson
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Beware Policy Abstraction
The recent US presidential election should be fresh enough in your memory to let you directly confirm that the issues focused on there were biased in…
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Robin Hanson
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Tension-Filled Black Holes
Most matter pushes against nearby matter, via a positive “pressure.” That’s why Earth holds its shape, instead of collapsing down to a point mass.
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October 2024

How Every Empire Falls
On the radio yesterday, I heard the soulful song That’s How Every Empire Falls, written by RB Morris sometime before 2005, and performed at various…
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Robin Hanson
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Prioritizing Concrete Proposals
I think often about the non-immediate future, and wonder how to best allocate effort to make that future better. And the first steps in this process are…
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Robin Hanson
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Drift Poll Winner: Rational Culture
Over the last day, I did two sets of polls comparing 16 cultural drift scenarios (detailed here) re their likelihood and desirability. (I later added…
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Robin Hanson
Our Authoritarian Default
Many intellectuals, and intellectual wannabes, would, if pressed accept that UFOs seem sufficiently puzzling to justify more careful study.
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Robin Hanson
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Beware Value Dashboards
Vehicles like cars, planes, and boats generally need a) an engine to push them forward, b) steering to direct their motions, and c) a driver to manage…
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