Aspects of the bias I have observed include: Presuming the US by default when it is assumed that no country name needs to be given.
Presuming the US when no country is named is statistical discrimination (not a bias).
Most Less Wrong users are from the US.
X is a Less Wrong user.
Probably, X is from the US.
What, if anything, is biased about this pattern of reasoning?
The point is that even though the majority of the audience is American, it (often) still isn't optimal to use US-centric terms and ideas.
Recently, I have noticed a cultural bias for the United States running through LW threads. It is perhaps to be expected of an English-language website, but for one that is about, among other things, overcoming bias, it is important to recognize one's own.
Aspects of the bias I have observed include:
I'm not the first to raise such concerns, either.
By comparison, e.g. the English Wikipedia strikes me as an example of an international English-language project that's relatively successful at recognizing and fighting systemic bias, and a whole set of template messages to mark articles with identified problems.
To quote Wikipedia itself:
The reason I haven't mentioned other obvious biases, such as gender, age, education, or First World biases, is because those (in my experience) tend to be more subtle here on LW and because I'm myself subject to some of them. However, I might cook something up on them later.