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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 three posts per week
  • First post on

Posts per month

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Posts per month
Month starting Posts
May 2021 10
Jun 2021 14
Jul 2021 10
Aug 2021 15
Sep 2021 6
Oct 2021 8
Nov 2021 5
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 2

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

Most recent posts

Youth Drive Cultural Drift
Young people are literally wired to challenge the status quo, to think outside the box. (more)Strategy that an evolution could follow, would be to create a vehicle that reliably tended to start believing that the …
On , by Robin Hanson, 688 words
How Fix Cultural Drift?
Many are optimists or pessimists by temperament; they tend to look for the bright side, or the dark, in most everything. (Except for us/them stuff, of course, where us seems bright and them dark no …
On , by Robin Hanson, 1,515 words
Second Response to Alexander on Medicine
Scott Alexander has responded to my response to his critique of my position on medical effectiveness. On the US taxpayer experiment, where I pointed out a big selection bias re the age range, he’s ready …
On , by Robin Hanson, 930 words