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Robin Hanson
Mar 1, 2009
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Here is our monthly place to discuss issues not covered in our other posts.

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Overcoming Bias Commenter
May 15

This anecdote illustrates my intuition that Hanson is wrong in his (fun for him because it's contrarian?) claim that relatively undiversified entrepreunership is rational for the individual:

http://andrewsullivan.theat...

I intuitively favor what I think are the more conventional views that a level of diversification which excedes most forms of entrepreneurship is a more rational approach to wealth-building for individuals, even though high levels of (individually irrational) entrepreneurship is a more rational approach to wealth-building for a society.

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Overcoming Bias Commenter
May 15

A fun critique of Wolfram's book by someone who appears to be an expert on CA

http://www.cscs.umich.edu/~...

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