Overcoming Bias

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This is an excellent 2014 book on how men differ from women: In Warriors and Worriers, psychologist Joyce Benenson presents a new theory of sex…
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In 2011, law prof Leo Katz published an interesting book, Why The Law is Perverse. Katz first lists many ways that the law is perverse, especially…
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What I’m about to say is pretty obvious to most artificial intelligence (AI) researchers, but I think others might benefit from hearing it. In general…
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Consider this iconic seduction scene from '58 movie The Lovers, from 58:55 on. It is dark, quiet, behind a large house at night. Jeanne walks past…
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From 2nd grade on my family lived in Southern California, and so we went to visit Disneyland about once a year during my childhood, trips that I greatly…
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According to Durkheim (and me), humans prefer to bind together not so much by directly and explicitly valuing each other, but instead indirectly, by…
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Some people think that number of publications or citations, weighted by venue prestige, is an adequate measure of one key kind of academic productivity…
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I got my PhD in formal political theory from Caltech in 1997. And here I’m going to pull rank, invoking my expertise on democracy. Our society is…
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I (Robin Hanson) have signed this statement, and am posting it simultaneously with three of my colleagues, Bryan Caplan, Alex Tabarrok, and Don…
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Construal level theory says that we think more concretely, as opposed to abstractly, about things that seem nearer to us in space, time, sociality…
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Large language models like ChatGPT have recently spooked a great many, and my Twitter feed is full of worriers saying how irresponsible orgs have been…
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February 2023

Over time I’ve come to feel forced to conclude that that most people want large areas of life to be relative free of law. That is, they don’t want to…
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