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http://www.overcomingbias.com/2008/11/thanksgiving-pr.html
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"Dear Global Economy, we thank thee for thy economies of scale, thy professional specialization, and thy international networks of trade under Ricardo's Law of Comparative Advantage, without which we would all starve to death while trying to assemble the ingredients for such a dinner as this. Amen."
http://www.overcomingbias.com/2007/11/an-alien-god.html
This link recently saved by leeinaustin on November 02, 2007
"Foxes seem well-designed to catch rabbits. Rabbits seem well-designed to evade foxes. Was the Creator having trouble making up Its mind?"
http://www.overcomingbias.com/2007/10/self-anchoring.html?cid=87219506#comm...
This link recently saved by leeinaustin on October 22, 2007
"..if we want to imagine what someone else is seeing, we've got to simulate it using our own visual cortex - put our own brains into the other mind's shoes. And because you can't reconfigure memory to simulate a new brain from stratch, [there's leakage]"
http://www.overcomingbias.com/2007/10/illusion-of-tra.html
This link recently saved by leeinaustin on October 21, 2007
A review of several fascinating psychological experiments. "Knowing the outcome, we reinterpret the situation in light of that outcome. Even when warned, we can't de-interpret to empathize with someone who doesn't know what we know...."
http://www.overcomingbias.com/2007/10/hold-off-solvin.html
This link recently saved by leeinaustin on October 20, 2007
People "propose possible solutions as they begin to discuss [a problem,] become emotionally attached to the ones they have suggested, and superior solutions are not suggested."
http://www.overcomingbias.com/2007/09/926-is-petrov-d.html
This link recently saved by leeinaustin on September 27, 2007
A single man prevented a nuclear holocaust twenty-four years ago today by refusing to follow military procedure. He now lives in relative poverty.
http://www.overcomingbias.com/2007/09/what-is-evidenc.html
This link recently saved by leeinaustin on September 23, 2007
"a belief is only really worthwhile if you could, in principle, be persuaded to believe otherwise."
http://www.overcomingbias.com/2007/08/mysterious-answ.html
This link recently saved by leeinaustin on August 27, 2007
"When you say 'Elan vital!', it feels like you know why your hand moves... But actually you know nothing you didn't know before... Your curiosity feels sated, but it hasn't been fed."
http://www.overcomingbias.com/2007/08/fake-explanatio.html
This link recently saved by leeinaustin on August 21, 2007
Yudkowsky's little Bayesian reasoning stories are always treats. The moral: "if you are equally good at explaining any outcome, you have zero knowledge."
http://www.overcomingbias.com/2007/08/absence-of-evid.html
This link recently saved by leeinaustin on August 13, 2007
"Your strength as a rationalist is your ability to be more confused by fiction than by reality... The strength of a model is not what it can explain, but what it can't, for only prohibitions constrain anticipation."