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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
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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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The motivated reasoning critique of effective altruism
Linch
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Beware frictions from altruistic value differences
Magnus Vinding
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AI Risk and Survivorship Bias - How Andreessen and LeCun got it wrong
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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
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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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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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Why I'm skeptical about unproven causes (and you should be too)
Peter Wildeford
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The Importance-Avoidance Effect
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Three Biases That Made Me Believe in AI Risk
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