• “Overcoming Bias Anthology” by Arjun Panickssery

  • Oct 23 2024
  • Length: 9 mins
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“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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    Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.
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