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 |
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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 |
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Most recent posts
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 …
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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 …