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Overcoming Bias

Started by Triple Zero, November 01, 2008, 01:31:31 AM

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Triple Zero

was talking with a collegue yesterday (a clever guy that's really interested in a lot of interesting stuff) about the Black Swan, turned out he read it too and had become a big fan of the ideas presented in it, he pointed me to an interesting blog:

http://robinhanson.typepad.com/overcomingbias/

i haven't had time to really read it yet, but i trust that it's got good stuff in it, and i thought some of you guys might be interested so i put it out here.
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Yeah, I've been linking to blog posts here and there from OB for a couple weeks now. Some really good stuff, other posts are over pretentious wanking.
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I discovered this blog recently too.  I've enjoyed reading the posts by Eliezer Yudkowsky. I linked to his article on ideology and Bose-Einstein Condensates in another thread.  This is a great post too: http://www.overcomingbias.com/2007/07/belief-in-belie.html
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