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I notice that I am confused.
Who is this?
Robin Hanson.
He writes Overcoming Bias. Is rather cynical, predicts future involving (i think) libertarianism and stuff that sounds morally bad to present day sensibilities.
Had a gaffe a while ago where he ignored mental trauma related to bodily autonomy, expressed confusion about rape being considered worse than cuckoldry.
On the right hand side of LessWrong, if you scroll down you see Overcoming Bias mentioned as sister site.
More importantly, it's where EY started blogging when he was sponsored by the Future of Humanity Institute in Oxford (he moved here after finishing the first few sequences).
Where "first few" means "Basically all of them". There are a few later additions but the bulk (from when he was writing a post a day or somesuch) was all OvercomingBias.
Note: it is meant that he moved to LessWrong from Overcoming Bias, not that he moved to the States from Oxford. :)
[Meta] Speaking as someone who upvoted this, (edited for clarity) why did someone downvote? Not everyone knows what Hanson looks like. This isn't the first time I've noticed on LW an answer having more karma than the question, which is a Thing That Bothers Me. (Although I do think that there is such thing as a stupid question, this isn't obviously one of them.)
In general posts in discussion are expected to contain more information than a simple link. As the time of this writing the post with the most upvotes is saying "I think this kind of submission is better suited in an open thread. :)".
I'm confused as to the placement of the above comment.
Why are you confused? It's a perfectly obvious that it is misplaced due to prior poster's confusion about your post's target. ;)
He looks a bit like Jack Nicholson in Batman, going by that picture. O_o
I'm not sure about the downvote. I'm upvoting the question on the grounds that noticing confusion is good.