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How is the picture of the Sirens and Odyssey tied to a mast in the header of Overcoming Bias related to the concepts talked on the site?
Odysseus realized that he couldn't trust his own mind (or those of his sailors) but found a workaround.
To "overcome bias" is to find workarounds for the mind's failure modes.
Along similar lines, Jon Elster was so taken by that literary motif that he used it in his Ulysses and the Sirens: Studies in Rationality and Irrationality, as well as his later Ulysses Unbound: Studies in Rationality, Precommitment, and Constraints.