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Overcoming Bias is Robin Hanson's long-running blog exploring human rationality, self-deception, and future scenarios including AI and existential risk, relevant to AI safety through its analysis of cognitive biases and forecasting.
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Overcoming Bias is Robin Hanson's Substack blog examining why humans believe and act as they do, the role of self-deception, and how to reason better about the future. It covers topics including AI, existential risk, economics, and social behavior. The blog has over 39,000 subscribers and is influential in rationalist and EA-adjacent communities.
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- •Long-running blog by economist Robin Hanson focused on rationality, bias, and forecasting
- •Covers AI futures, existential risk, and human self-deception relevant to AI safety discourse
- •Influential in rationalist and effective altruism communities that overlap heavily with AI safety
- •Explores how cognitive and social biases affect beliefs about technology and the future
- •Now hosted on Substack with over 39,000 subscribers
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Overcoming Bias | Robin Hanson | Substack This is a blog on why we believe and do what we do, why we pretend otherwise, how we might do better, and what our descendants might do, if they don't all die. By Robin Hanson · Over 39,000 subscribers Subscribe By subscribing, you agree Substack's Terms of Use , and acknowledge its Information Collection Notice and Privacy Policy . No thanks This site requires JavaScript to run correctly. Please turn on JavaScript or unblock scripts
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