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A cognitive bias is a systematic deviation from ideal reasoning.

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79New Book: "Reasoned Politics" + Why I have written a book about politics

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53Affective forecasting: The challenge of predicting future feelings and the implications for global priorities research

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265The motivated reasoning critique of effective altruism

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83Beware frictions from altruistic value differences

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122Invisible impact loss (and why we can be too error-averse)

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120Database of existential risk estimates

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100The availability bias in job hunting

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57Potential downsides of using explicit probabilities

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51The Importance-Avoidance Effect

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50On applause lights and costly counters

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41Why I'm skeptical about unproven causes (and you should be too)

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41Three Biases That Made Me Believe in AI Risk

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40Binding Fuzzies and Utilons Together

eleni, LuisMota

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36Scope Insensitivity

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31Rationality vs. Rationalization: Reflecting on motivated beliefs

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