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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 2020 10
Jan 2021 2
Feb 2021 11
Mar 2021 16
Apr 2021 15
May 2021 14
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

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

Most recent posts

Frank’s Book Of Little Aliens
In his new book Little Book of Aliens, astrophysicist Adam Frank says that we now know almost nothing about aliens, but we will soon learn much more: Fermi saw that if technologically advanced, star-faring civilizations …
On , by Robin Hanson, 1,646 words
After Eating It, Software Will Bite The World
Software is eating the world. … All of the technology required to transform industries through software finally works and can be widely delivered at global scale. … Software programming tools and Internet-based services make it …
On , by Robin Hanson, 1,038 words
Choose: Cultural or Bayesian Morality
One of humanity’s key superpowers is our cultural plasticity: we change our species by each of us as kids copying the adults around us. We can consistently be well aware that humans at other times …
On , by Robin Hanson, 476 words