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 |
|---|---|
| Jan 2022 | 6 |
| 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 | 9 |
| Jan 2025 | 5 |
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Most recent posts
Most of our activities can be seen as nested plans, to achieve nested goals. For example, in a war an overall plan to win the war is composed of many more specific plans to start …
Christians often ask themselves, as a guide to living, “What would Jesus do?” In her new book Open Socrates, my podcast-cohost Agnes Callard suggests we instead ask “What would Socrates do?”Over 2400 years ago, Socrates …
As I’ve attributed a large fraction of human behaviors to signaling incentives, I feel I should address a key signaling question, about which I was recently reminded.All else equal, we prefer others to think that …