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Beware Change-Blocking Priors
“Faced with the choice between changing one’s mind and proving that there is no need to do so, almost everyone gets busy on the proof.” John Kenneth…
 • Robin Hanson
Sacred Identify
What is the sacred?
 • Robin Hanson
Overcoming Sincere Prestige Bias
Humans suffer two big but under-discussed biases, which together make us overly favor people we see as prestigious and sincere. First, humanity’s…
 • Robin Hanson
Hanania On Populism
I liked Richard Hanania’s two prior books, but less like his new third one, Kakistocracy: Why Populism Ends in Disaster. (“Kakistocracy” means rule by…
 • Robin Hanson
Our Eight Great Contests
Humanity has seen four great eras so far: animal, forager, farmer, and industry. And each era had two key levels of evolutionary competition: individual…
 • Robin Hanson
Do Polymath LLMs Love Big Brother?
In Orwell’s novel 1984, protagonist Winston is beaten down by his totalitarian state, eventually so far into submission that he honestly embraces state…
 • Robin Hanson
Legible Forager Stories
To prevent dominators from taking over bands, early human foragers used language and weapons to empower a talky collective to coordinate to watch for…
 • Robin Hanson
Overcoming Bias
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.
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