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A cognitive bias is a systematic deviation from ideal reasoning.

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New Book: "Reasoned Politics" + Why I have written a book about politics
Magnus Vinding
· 2y ago · 7m read
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Affective forecasting: The challenge of predicting future feelings and the implications for global priorities research
Matt Coleman
· 2y ago · 25m read
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The motivated reasoning critique of effective altruism
Linch
· 2y ago · 28m read
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Beware frictions from altruistic value differences
Magnus Vinding
· 1y ago · 6m read
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AI Risk and Survivorship Bias - How Andreessen and LeCun got it wrong
stepanlos
· 5mo ago · 7m read
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Expert trap: Ways out (Part 3 of 3) – how hindsight, hierarchy, and confirmation biases break conductivity and accuracy of knowledge
Pawel Sysiak
· 4mo ago · 11m read
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Database of existential risk estimates
MichaelA
· 4y ago · 6m read
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Invisible impact loss (and why we can be too error-averse)
Lizka
· 1y ago · 10m read
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The availability bias in job hunting
Vaidehi Agarwalla
· 2y ago · 8m read
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Four mindset disagreements behind existential risk disagreements in ML
RobBensinger
· 8mo ago · 10m read
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Controlling for a thinker’s big idea
Vasco Grilo
· 2mo ago · 9m read
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Potential downsides of using explicit probabilities
MichaelA
· 4y ago · 22m read
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The Importance-Avoidance Effect
davidhartsough
· 2y ago · 12m read
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Why I'm skeptical about unproven causes (and you should be too)
Peter Wildeford
· 10y ago · 13m read
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Three Biases That Made Me Believe in AI Risk
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· 5y ago · 4m read
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