“Overcoming Bias Anthology” by Arjun Panickssery

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This is a link post. Part 1: Our Thinking
Near and Far
1 Abstract/Distant Future Bias
2 Abstractly Ideal, Concretely Selfish
3 We Add Near, Average Far
4 Why We Don't Know What We Want
5 We See the Sacred from Afar, to See It Together
6 The Future Seems Shiny
7 Doubting My Far Mind
Disagreement
8 Beware the Inside View
9 Are Meta Views Outside Views?
10 Disagreement Is Near-Far Bias
11 Others' Views Are Detail
12 Why Be Contrarian?
13 On Disagreement, Again
14 Rationality Requires Common Priors
15 Might Disagreement Fade Like Violence?
Biases
16 Reject Random Beliefs
17 Chase Your Reading
18 Against Free Thinkers
19 Eventual Futures
20 Seen vs. Unseen Biases
21 Law as No-Bias Theatre
22 Benefit of Doubt = Bias
Part 2: Our Motives
Signaling
23 Decision Theory Remains Neglected
24 What Function Music?
25 Politics isn't about Policy
26 Views [...]
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Outline:
(00:07) Part 1: Our Thinking
(00:12) Near and Far
(00:37) Disagreement
(01:04) Biases
(01:28) Part 2: Our Motives
(01:33) Signaling
(02:01) Norms
(02:35) Fiction
(02:58) The Dreamtime
(03:19) Part 3: Our Institutions
(03:25) Prediction Markets
(03:48) Academia
(04:06) Medicine
(04:15) Paternalism
(04:29) Law
(05:21) Part 4: Our Past
(05:26) Farmers and Foragers
(05:55) History as Exponential Modes
(06:09) The Great Filter
(06:35) Part 5: Our Future
(06:39) Aliens
(07:01) UFOs
(07:22) The Age of Em
(07:44) Artificial Intelligence
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First published:
October 20th, 2024
Source:
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/JxsJdBnL2gG5oa2Li/overcoming-bias-anthology
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