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A cognitive bias is a systematic deviation from ideal reasoning.

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The motivated reasoning critique of effective altruism
Linch
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Invisible impact loss (and why we can be too error-averse)
Lizka
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Database of existential risk estimates
MichaelA🔸
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The availability bias in job hunting
Vaidehi Agarwalla 🔸
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Beware frictions from altruistic value differences
Magnus Vinding
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New Book: "Reasoned Politics" + Why I have written a book about politics
Magnus Vinding
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Four mindset disagreements behind existential risk disagreements in ML
RobBensinger
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Controlling for a thinker’s big idea
Vasco Grilo🔸
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Potential downsides of using explicit probabilities
MichaelA🔸
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Affective forecasting: The challenge of predicting future feelings and the implications for global priorities research
Matt Coleman🔹
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Why we ignore the suffering of wild animals: Understanding our biases
Animal_Ethics
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Why I'm skeptical about unproven causes (and you should be too)
Peter Wildeford
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Three tricky biases: human bias, existence bias, and happy bias
Steven Rouk
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Value of Life: VSL Estimates vs Community Perspective Evaluations
Joel Tan🔸
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The Importance-Avoidance Effect
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