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.
- By Robin Hanson
- Based in United Kingdom
- Roughly two posts per week
- First post on
Posts per month
| Month starting | Posts |
|---|---|
| Nov 2021 | 3 |
| Dec 2021 | 8 |
| Jan 2022 | 12 |
| Feb 2022 | 15 |
| Mar 2022 | 7 |
| Apr 2022 | 9 |
| May 2022 | 9 |
| Jun 2022 | 9 |
| Jul 2022 | 14 |
| Aug 2022 | 8 |
| Sep 2022 | 7 |
| Oct 2022 | 11 |
| Nov 2022 | 11 |
| Dec 2022 | 10 |
| Jan 2023 | 5 |
| Feb 2023 | 0 |
| Mar 2023 | 0 |
| Apr 2023 | 0 |
| May 2023 | 0 |
| Jun 2023 | 4 |
| Jul 2023 | 4 |
| Aug 2023 | 11 |
| Sep 2023 | 5 |
| Oct 2023 | 10 |
| Nov 2023 | 9 |
| Dec 2023 | 11 |
| Jan 2024 | 14 |
| Feb 2024 | 6 |
| Mar 2024 | 4 |
| Apr 2024 | 11 |
| May 2024 | 11 |
| Jun 2024 | 3 |
| Jul 2024 | 14 |
| Aug 2024 | 9 |
| Sep 2024 | 12 |
| Oct 2024 | 11 |
| Nov 2024 | 1 |
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Most recent posts
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. An odd feature of general relativity (GR) is that the pressure …
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 times by Morris, John Prine, and Marianne Faithfull. I was …
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 often to identify interesting classes of scenarios, and …