Sitemap - 2009 - Overcoming Bias
“Oughts” Are Derived From “Is”
It’s News On Academia, Not Climate
Take Both Econ, Techies Seriously
Med Decides If We’ll Get Richer
Let’s Not Kill All The Lawyers
Disasters Are Worth Preventing
Explaining Unequal Inequality Aversion
Income is Healthy, Not Earning, Spending It
Alternate Free Speech Histories
Prediction Markets As Collective Intelligence
Why Does Pharma Study Placebos?
Pick One: Sick Kids or Look Poor
Blogger Pots Call Senator Kettles Black
Downturns Are Not Existential Risks
Indifference To Hospital Quality
Moral Rules Are To Check Power
Social Science Cuts Religiosity
Fat Policy Is Not About Health
Affirmative Action Isn’t About Uplift
The Meds In Spain Vary Mainly By The Plain
Government Insurance Advantage?
Subsidize Investigative Journalism
Signaling Beats Race-IQ For Controversy
Redistribution Isn’t About Sympathy
Errors, Lies, and Self-Deception
“Lazy” Hurt Less Than “Stupid”?
Satisfied with Status Affiliation
What Chance a “Real” Possibility?
Against Admirable Activities, Again
Prestige Matters More For Smarts
The what-pisses-you-off heuristic
Another Call to End Aid to Africa
The Pascal’s Wager Fallacy Fallacy
Trusting Sponsored Medical Research
As ye judge those who fund thee, ye shall be judged
Be sure to mind when you change your mind
Posting now enabled on Less Wrong
OB meetup Friday 13th 7PM Springfield VA
Augustine’s Paradox of optimal repentance
The Most Frequently Useful Thing
The Most Important Thing You Learned
Avoid Identifying With Anything?
Tell Your Rationalist Origin Story… at Less Wrong
On Not Having an Advance Abyssal Plan
Write Your Hypothetical Apostasy
The intervention and the checklist: two paradigms for improvement
Good Idealistic Books are Rare
An Especially Elegant Evpsych Experiment
The Evolutionary-Cognitive Boundary
Cynicism in Ev-Psych (and Econ?)
Share likelihood ratios, not posterior beliefs
True Ending: Sacrificial Fire (7/8)
Normal Ending: Last Tears (6/8)
Interlude with the Confessor (4/8)
Different meanings of Bayesian statistics
Tribal Biases and the Inauguration
The surprising power of rote cognition
Justified Expectation of Pleasant Surprises