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UNCONVENTIONAL WISDOM @50: Primal Transhumanism
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Dare to challenge conventional wisdom everyday and enjoy your journey. Question your core belief system, one that you have been told is the absolute truth, you must open your mind to the possibilities. Great thinkers challenge "Unconventional Wisdom" we are radical thinkers a community of brilliant, passionate dreamers and doers to lead the way. Just when you realize that you don’t know everything you truly start your journey. Twitter: @UNCONVWisdom50. June 14, 2011. So what’s a transhumanist to do?
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Gottschall's Gotcha - Overcoming Bias
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Laquo; Spent = Gold Schlock. Against Admirable Activities, Again ». May 20, 2009. Miller may have made this final point a bit too well. I was not many pages into. Functions not only as an attempt to popularize a vein of scientific research, but also as a means of selling the audience on the virtues of its creator: Geoffrey Miller a smart guy, a bit of a Renaissance man. There are two things to say about this. First, it is Geoffrey Miller, Renaissance man, who gives. Posted by Robin Hanson. By designed do...
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Moving Hiatus - Overcoming Bias
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Laquo; Tax Unhappiness? Overcoming Bias Has MOVED ». May 25, 2009. This evening at midnight Eastern Daylight Time, this blog will begin to move to a new hosting site. For a smooth transition, please dont comment from then until 2am EST. Posted by Robin Hanson. At 06:00 PM in Meta. Are you trying to confuse us Robin? You do mean EDT, right? Posted by: C.B. May 25, 2009 at 08:35 PM. CB, yes, sorry, post is corrected. Posted by: Robin Hanson. May 25, 2009 at 08:49 PM. The comments to this entry are closed.
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Against Makeup? - Overcoming Bias
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Laquo; Mea Culpa: Positionality Data. Spent's Main Argument ». May 18, 2009. Though yesterday I complained. Robert] Frank offers no evidence whatsoever that the activities he dislikes and wants to tax in fact cause more inefficient status-seeking than the activities he likes and wants to subsidize. A few hours later I reported. That others have published evidence on which particular goods and activities induce more inefficient status efforts. So now the key question is:. Perhaps Frank would suggest that ...
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Overcoming Bias: Academia
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April 30, 2009. Pox On Both Houses. American Journal of Economics and Sociology. A very disturbing result:. Once polywater was considered a failure, not only were those who had written in its favor punished, but those who had written against it were punished just as strongly! If your side is currently favored, you dont want to debate the other side! 0160; Diamond suggests another cause:. Posted by Robin Hanson. At 10:00 AM in Academia. April 11, 2009. Who Loves Truth Most? Who loves cars most? Imagine yo...
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Against Admirable Activities, Again - Overcoming Bias
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Laquo; Gottschall's Gotcha. Reply to Moldbug ». May 21, 2009. Against Admirable Activities, Again. When my kids were young and played a new game, the pattern was clear: If they won, they liked that game and wanted to play it again. If they lost, they didnt like that game. Tyler Cowen once told me how this generalizes; the essential question of ideology is: who should be admired? Admirable activities help us to develop and show our admirable qualities. But since admiration is in part relative...This su...
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Overcoming Bias Has MOVED - Overcoming Bias
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Laquo; Moving Hiatus. May 26, 2009. Overcoming Bias Has MOVED. For the new posts. Posted by Robin Hanson. At 09:00 AM in Meta. The comments to this entry are closed. New readers start here]. On Reply to Moldbug. On Three Worlds Collide (0/8). Overcoming Bias Has MOVED. Against Admirable Activities, Again. Spent = Gold Schlock. Less Wrong (sister site). The Reversal Test: Eliminating Status Quo Bias In Applied Ethics. Cognitive biases potentially affecting judgment of global risks.
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Reply to Moldbug - Overcoming Bias
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Laquo; Against Admirable Activities, Again. Missing Liberaltarians ». May 22, 2009. A Mencius Moldbug has written a confused and rambling 7400 word critique. Of futarchy. But since Mencius seems to have passion and potential, let me try to communicate. Most readers may prefer to skip this post; it will get tedious. So if PM good, DM bad, your complaints should focus on features that distinguish decision and prediction markets, right? You can ask for a full probability distribution. If specula...In an o...
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Overcoming Bias: Status
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May 19, 2009. On Sunday I reviewed Franks. Which advocated taxing conspicuous relative to inconspicuous consumption. I noted:. That the activities he dislikes and wants to tax in fact cause more inefficient status-seeking than the activities he likes and wants to subsidize. But soon after I reported. On data others have collected on this, and summarized. Their implications for policy. This morning I gave the main argument from Geoffrey Millers new book. Signaling infuses most human activity. Posted by ...
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Overcoming Bias: Prediction Markets
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May 22, 2009. A Mencius Moldbug has written a confused and rambling 7400 word critique. Of futarchy. But since Mencius seems to have passion and potential, let me try to communicate. Most readers may prefer to skip this post; it will get tedious. Prediction markets are a fine idea, whereas decision markets are. well. retarded. . Almost every conceivable application of a decision market . does not produce accurate predictions. You can ask for a full probability distribution. If speculators kno...Institu...
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