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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

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Posts per month
Month starting Posts
Dec 2021 3
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 5
Dec 2024 6

Any gaps could be due to errors when fetching the blog’s feed.

Most recent posts

Conquest and Liberation of Academia
During my graduate studies (’93-97), I looked at the history of prizes in science. I learned that from ~1600-1800, prizes funded science lots, and much more than did grants. But ~1830, science elites controlling top …
On , by Robin Hanson, 1,181 words
Hail Jeffrey Wernick
I started to write about prediction markets in 1988, and not until 1999 about using conditional markets to make org decisions. Yesterday I recorded a video discussion with Jeffrey Wernick, wherein he shocked me by …
On , by Robin Hanson, 700 words
Arntz-Gray & I Talk Feminism
At 6:30-8p ET today, I’ll be talking with Regan Arntz-Gray on Our Cultural Future: Feminization, Fertility, and Activism At the link you can get an “OVERCOMING BIAS FREE TICKET" via the password BIASFREE.
On , by Robin Hanson, 38 words