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- Old folks see culture change https://www.overcomingbias.com/p/old-folks-see-culture-change 2 comments
- Why Is Everyone So Boring? https://www.overcomingbias.com/2023/02/why-is-everyone-so-boring.html 126 comments
- Unblinding Our Admin Futures https://www.overcomingbias.com/2022/03/unblinding-admin-futures.html 11 comments
- Rebooting Justice http://www.overcomingbias.com/2019/04/rebootingjustice.html 12 comments
- This AI Boom Will Also Bust http://www.overcomingbias.com/2016/12/this-ai-boom-will-also-bust.html 302 comments
- Beware Prestige-Based Discretion http://www.overcomingbias.com/2016/06/beware-prestige-based-discretion.html#comments 4 comments
- Elite colleges lower women's wages http://www.overcomingbias.com/2011/02/elite-college-fems-earn-less.html 19 comments
- Economist claims we tax the rich because of jealousy and status envy. No, it's because your billions dollars does more good feeding the poor and treating the sick than it does enriching Wall Street. http://www.overcomingbias.com/2011/02/why-do-we-tax-the-rich.html 38 comments politics
- School isn’t for learning — “School isn’t about learning ‘material,’ school is about learning to accept workplace domination and ranking, and tolerating long hours of doing boring stuff exactly when and how you are told.” http://www.overcomingbias.com/2010/08/school-isnt-about-learning.html 49 comments politics
- The fences are for the cattle: Insider trading is banned... of course, EXCEPT if you are in Congress http://www.overcomingbias.com/2010/07/financial-reform.html 3 comments politics
- Some like to paint world history as an epic conflict between deeply divergent visions of civilization, which come down to disputes over a few key values. But if so, just what are those key disputed values? http://www.overcomingbias.com/2009/11/key-disputed-values.html 3 comments reddit.com
- Rule morality keeps powerful folks from doing bad things to the rest of us. http://www.overcomingbias.com/2009/08/moral-rules-are-to-check-power.html 4 comments reddit.com
- Telephone Game With Functions http://www.overcomingbias.com/2009/04/telephone-game-with-functions.html 4 comments math
- Absence of Evidence *Is* Evidence of Absence http://www.overcomingbias.com/2007/08/absence-of-evid.html 9 comments philosophy
- Why not really start over from scratch - throw away our childhoods and redo everything? http://www.overcomingbias.com/2009/02/formative-youth.html 6 comments cogsci
- Eutopia is Scary http://www.overcomingbias.com/2009/01/scary-eutopia.html 5 comments cogsci
- A New Day http://www.overcomingbias.com/2008/12/a-new-day.html 3 comments philosophy
- Worse Than Random http://www.overcomingbias.com/2008/11/worse-than-rand.html 4 comments programming
- An argument to be suspicious of claims that randomization improves an algorithm http://www.overcomingbias.com/2008/11/the-weighted-ma.html 25 comments programming
- The Cartoon Guide to Löb's Theorem http://www.overcomingbias.com/2008/08/lobs-theorem.html 7 comments math
- The beautiful people, the beautiful people http://www.overcomingbias.com/2008/08/ignore-beauty.html 9 comments cogsci
- The Comedy of Behaviorism http://www.overcomingbias.com/2008/08/behaviorism.html 8 comments cogsci
- A Priori http://www.overcomingbias.com/2007/10/a-priori.html 15 comments cogsci
- "Einstein was cute for a human but in an absolute sense he was around as efficient as the US Department of Defense." http://www.overcomingbias.com/2008/05/my-childhood-ro.html 3 comments science
- New York overrun by philosophical zombies! http://www.overcomingbias.com/2008/04/zombie-movie.html 15 comments science
- "Talking to aspiring young physicists about 'wave/particle duality' is like starting chemistry students on the Four Elements." http://www.overcomingbias.com/2008/04/quantum-explana.html 80 comments science
- More women in the sciences will require fewer women somewhere else. Where? http://www.overcomingbias.com/2008/03/where-want-less.html 4 comments science
- Limits to Physics Insight http://www.overcomingbias.com/2008/03/limits-to-physi.html 2 comments science
- WTF: dinosaurs on the Moon http://www.overcomingbias.com/2008/02/dinos-on-the-mo.html 58 comments science
- Medicine in 1850 BC or 1977 Ad. Which was better? http://www.overcomingbias.com/2008/02/eternal-medicin.html 52 comments science
- Is Reality Ugly? http://www.overcomingbias.com/2008/01/is-reality-ugly.html 14 comments science
- "In the world of the unenlightened ones, there is authority and un-authority. What can be trusted, can be trusted; what cannot be trusted, you may as well throw away." http://www.overcomingbias.com/2008/01/absolute-author.html 2 comments science
- What if arithmetic were treated in the same way as AI? http://www.overcomingbias.com/2007/11/artificial-addi.html 140 comments programming
- Why Publication Bias Makes the Death Penalty Seem More Effective than it Really is http://www.overcomingbias.com/2007/11/publication-bia.html 4 comments science
- The Simple Math of Everything - I really wish somebody would write this book http://www.overcomingbias.com/2007/11/the-simple-math.html#more 2 comments science
- "Many non-biologists ,.. think that it is for their benefit that rattles grow on rattlesnake tails." Bzzzt! This kind of purposefulness is not allowed. http://www.overcomingbias.com/2007/11/an-alien-god.html 5 comments science
- "Emergence" is BS http://www.overcomingbias.com/2007/08/the-futility-of.html 2 comments science
- The placebo effect of exercise http://www.overcomingbias.com/2007/04/exercise_sizzle.html 7 comments reddit.com
- You Are Not Hiring the Top 1% http://www.overcomingbias.com/2007/03/you_are_not_hir.html 2 comments reddit.com
- There appears to be a consensus among medical professionals that husbands should not be told when they are not their wife's child's father. http://www.overcomingbias.com/2006/12/the_conspiracy_.html 6 comments science