Overcoming Bias is a group blog on the systemic mistakes humans make, and how we can possibly correct them. The primary contributors are Robin Hanson of George Mason University and Eliezer Yudkowsky of the Singularity Institute. Common topics include "cognitive psychology, evolutionary psychology, microeconomics, applied statistics, social psychology, probability and decision theory, even a bit of Artificial Intelligence now and then."
Title | Author | Date | Summary |
|---|---|---|---|
Robin Hanson | 2006-11-20 | Description of OB and how to contribute. | |
Robin Hanson | 2006-11-20 | Should we teach children about self-interest explanations and sociobiology earlier? | |
Hal Finney | 2006-11-21 | Discussion of Philip Tetlock's Fox/Hedgehog classification guide in Expert Political Judgement. | |
Robin Hanson | 2006-11-21 | Is there a bias towards working hard and against spending enough time with family? | |
Nick Bostrom | 2006-11-21 | Biases may exist on an individual level, even if they cancel out on a group level, so even apparently contradictory bromides might highlight important types of failure. | |
Robin Hanson | 2006-11-22 | Some opinions are highly heritable, so put extra scrutiny on those beliefs. | |
Eliezer Yudkowsky | 2006-11-22 | Rationality as martial art. Individuals should be able to train their mind like they train muscles. | |
Robin Hanson | 2006-11-23 | First known example of a market designed primarily to gain information from was created by Xanadu, Inc. in 1990. | |
Robin Hanson | 2006-11-24 | Ratio of Democrats to Republicans in academia is 5:1 compared to roughly 1:1 in general populace. Is this due to intelligence and information, or social reasons? | |
Robin Hanson | 2006-11-24 | Students admit to cheating, lying, and theft, but 75% think they are more ethical than their peers. | |
Nick Bostrom | 2006-11-25 | "A bias is a non-rational factor that systematically pushes one's beliefs in some domain in one direction." | |