Overcoming Bias

Overcoming Bias

Home
Archive
About
Macro Cultural Debt
The personal lives of Olympic medalists seem overwhelmingly devoted to practicing their sport; a dreary life.
 • Robin Hanson
Buying News By Metric
For many decades I’ve thought about how to reform areas of life via finding ways to measure the long term outcomes people want from each area, and then…
 • Robin Hanson
Treat Info Institutions Alike
“Info institutions” solicit contributions, aggregate them into info summaries, and distribute such summaries to audiences.
 • Robin Hanson
Our Modern Mistake
People hate to be given direct orders, especially if they will have to visibly follow such orders, and especially if they feel rivalrous with those who…
 • Robin Hanson
AI is Acceleration
I was once an AI researcher, and since then I’ve been both an economist and a futurist for many decades.
 • Robin Hanson
Mature Cultural Desire
A common immature attitude to desire is to assume that you are entitled to what you passionately desire, and to then cry if you don’t get it, to…
 • Robin Hanson
Capitalist ≠ Voluntary
Time for a status update on cultural drift. I’ve been pondering solutions, and now see at best only three weakly promising options. The other possible…
 • 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.
Recommendations
View all 8
Rob Henderson's Newsletter
Rob Henderson's Newsletter
Rob Henderson
Bet On It
Bet On It
Bryan Caplan
Living Fossils
Living Fossils
The Living Fossils
Noahpinion
Noahpinion
Noah Smith
Astral Codex Ten
Astral Codex Ten
Scott Alexander

Overcoming Bias

AboutArchiveRecommendationsSitemap
© 2026 Robin Hanson · Privacy ∙ Terms ∙ Collection notice
Start your SubstackGet the app
Substack is the home for great culture