The Curious Engineer

Overcoming Bias

2009–2010

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December 2010

  1. The Wisdom Of Others
  2. Beware Commitment
  3. Rome As Semi-Foragers
  4. Gays As Foragers
  5. Less Mature With Age
  6. Is Loss-Aversion Far?
  7. The Most Important Topic
  8. Are Showoff Men Cads?
  9. On Sex & Violence
  10. Peer Review Is Random
  11. The Felt & The Unfelt
  12. How Hopeless A PhD?
  13. Prison Is Cruel
  14. Heroes Of Heroes
  15. Mapping Academia
  16. Fertility Looks Bad
  17. Artists As Foragers
  18. Gambling Save Science?
  19. Compare Refuge, Resort
  20. Ban Mirror Cells
  21. Cosmic Coordination
  22. Renew Forager Law?
  23. Polls Lie About Votes
  24. Berserker Breakout
  25. VCU Futarchy Talk
  26. Khan on Forage v Farm
  27. Leading Isn’t Helping
  28. Nation-As-Small-Org Bias
  29. Open Thread

November 2010

  1. Gentle Silent Rape
  2. Mom Delusions Re Dad
  3. At Least Two Filters
  4. Med Trends Continue
  5. Fem Hiring Jealousy
  6. Beware Consistency
  7. Brain Size Is Not A Filter
  8. Elite Fertility Falls
  9. Tug-O-War Is Not Charity
  10. Starflight Review
  11. Postrel on Shiny Futures
  12. Why College Cores?
  13. Bah Complex Regulation
  14. Deathbed Regret Is Far
  15. Naked Classism
  16. Bungling Bounties
  17. Get Eggs Froze
  18. Talk Tonight at Heritage
  19. Fertility: The Big Problem
  20. Collapse Was Slow
  21. Real Creativity
  22. Bah Sophistication
  23. Expand Bounty Hunting
  24. Flexible Law Wins
  25. Light Rights Tangles
  26. Hypergamy Hypothesis
  27. Teen Sex Deals
  28. Why Are Rich Stingy?
  29. Where Inequality Matters
  30. Result Blind Review
  31. Disapproving Via Bans
  32. Beware Future Filters
  33. What Tech Wants
  34. The Auto-Auto Race
  35. Politics: Info or War?
  36. New Vs. Old Guard
  37. Open Thread

October 2010

  1. Hyper-Rational Harry
  2. Boo Dark Powers
  3. Goertzel on Friendly AI
  4. Aliens Among Us
  5. A Media Critique
  6. Supplements Kill
  7. Good With Bad Traits
  8. Cosmic Trash
  9. Improve Your Gal?
  10. Pity The Sex Starved
  11. Pink Politics
  12. Concept Artists
  13. Limits To Law
  14. Norms Beat Empathy
  15. Sustainable Music
  16. NYC Meetup Thursday
  17. The Future Seems Shiny
  18. Response to Roissy
  19. Divide: Forager v Farmer
  20. Is Cancer Industrial?
  21. East/West Rearing Styles
  22. Practical Med Skepticism
  23. Thresholds Hurt Oddballs
  24. Medicine is Sacred
  25. How Bonded Were Pairs?
  26. Sex At Dawn Is Right
  27. Retiring Humans
  28. Forage vs Farm Podcast
  29. Pedophiles Mate For Life
  30. Do We Rule Our Fate?
  31. Why Impress Friends?
  32. Forage vs Farm Future
  33. Why Towns Conform
  34. Fear Made Farmers
  35. Hole In My Hypothesis
  36. Two Types of People
  37. Dissing Fear
  38. 1860 View Of School
  39. Lava Killed Neanderthals
  40. Open Thread

September 2010

  1. Doubting My Far Mind
  2. Track Records
  3. Against Trade War
  4. Jobs Explain Lots
  5. Opinion Warning Signs
  6. Who Cares Re Bygones?
  7. Low-Divorce Jobs
  8. Jumping To Joy
  9. Why Is USA Different?
  10. Disaster Shelters
  11. Homo Hypocritus Mates
  12. The East Is Far
  13. Evasive Erudition
  14. Academics Like Nations?
  15. How Nations Vary
  16. A Med Datum
  17. God Near or No Mind Hair
  18. Bike Helmet Doubts
  19. Salacious Sunday
  20. Overconfidence Signals
  21. Sample Odds
  22. Green Is Far, Mostly Pink
  23. Old Are Lazy, But Fit
  24. Stranger Than Fiction
  25. Meaning of Meaning of Life
  26. Tyler On A Roll
  27. Profiling Fails
  28. Love Vs. Conversion
  29. Wisdom on Comments
  30. Ways To Pay To Exist
  31. Alcohol Is Healthy
  32. Me At Pale Blue Dot
  33. Open Thread

August 2010

  1. Death Panels Add Life
  2. Who Should Exist?
  3. When To Expand Yourself
  4. Sport Fan Signals
  5. What Is Politics About?
  6. Friends Disagree Lots
  7. FDA Serves Status
  8. Functions Of School
  9. Why No Gather-Sport?
  10. Why Nerds Like Games
  11. School Isn’t For Learning
  12. Who Signals Least?
  13. Who Should Get A Life?
  14. Great Divides
  15. Meh To Matches
  16. Reply To Caplan on Kids
  17. In Favor Of Fever
  18. Value Of Virginity
  19. Response to Kling
  20. Bill & My Excellent Hypothesis
  21. Dvorsky Matures
  22. Against Free Parking
  23. Rah Old Indian IVF Moms
  24. Disagreement Is Far
  25. Rah Firm Board Outsiders
  26. Humor As Norm Evasion
  27. Me On Future
  28. Detail Is Near
  29. Why Not Friend Match?
  30. More Diversity Or Less?
  31. New Hard Steps Results
  32. Meat Philosophy
  33. Far is Overconfident
  34. Am I A Sim?
  35. Look But Don’t Touch
  36. Immortality Distracts
  37. Open Thread
  38. Arrogant Professionals

July 2010

  1. Looking Too Good
  2. Hypergamy & Polygamy
  3. Others’ Views Are Detail
  4. Polygamy Hypocrisy
  5. Brave Position Club?
  6. Signaling Conspiracies
  7. OK, Let’s Talk Race
  8. Anything Not Required …
  9. Unincorporated War
  10. Do One-Eyed Rule Blind?
  11. Laughter
  12. Food Subsidy Fails
  13. Rah Apathy
  14. Far Idealism Puzzles
  15. Political Genes
  16. Be Stingy With Praise
  17. Real Adventure
  18. Cryonics is Very Far
  19. Many Ways To Signal
  20. Falling Creativity
  21. Hail Survivalists
  22. Space Ash Vs. Cryo
  23. Catheter Infection Law
  24. Cryonics As Charity
  25. Don’t Stab Corpses
  26. Picking On Cryo-Nerds
  27. Financial Reform
  28. Modern Male Sati
  29. Cads, Dads, Doms
  30. Why Line Sorters?
  31. Family Vs. Community
  32. Blood On Our Hands
  33. Don’t Force AA
  34. Open Thread

June 2010

  1. Non-Conformists Conform
  2. Read A Classic
  3. Contrasting Contrarians
  4. Schools Aren’t Creative
  5. More Reliable Cars
  6. Aus Law Innovations
  7. Difference Wisdom
  8. Why Be Shy
  9. Group Norms
  10. Tourism Isn’t About Culture
  11. Club Discrimination
  12. All Together Now
  13. Beware Active Placebos
  14. Science ROI Hype
  15. Are Drugs About Sex?
  16. Imperialist US?
  17. Layers of Delusion
  18. Types of Thinkers
  19. Athletes vs. Musicians
  20. On Teen Angst
  21. Spent vs. Ridicule
  22. When Myths Meet Tech
  23. Regulator Status
  24. Let All Med Hang Out?
  25. Rise & Fall of War
  26. Foragers
  27. School Status Moves
  28. Overconfident Innovation
  29. DreamTime
  30. Self-Control Is Slavery
  31. CEO Movie Villains
  32. School Is Far
  33. Be Self-Styled
  34. Seeking School Clues
  35. Near-Far Summary
  36. School Attitudes
  37. Open Thread
  38. Why Schools Test Often

May 2010

  1. Limits To Art
  2. Nuke That Oil Well
  3. Drugs Don’t Help
  4. School Isn’t Healthy
  5. Chase Your Reading
  6. Hail Christopher Boehm
  7. Question Your Law
  8. Cannibals Die Fast
  9. Underdog Fever Is Far
  10. Treme Dissapoints
  11. How Long A Leash?
  12. Selective Discrimination
  13. My Funeral
  14. Is Fear Near, Anger Far?
  15. Review: Rational Optimist
  16. Near Picts/Voices, Far Words/Faces
  17. Yawn, World Remade
  18. Wanted: Cynic Textbooks
  19. Regulation Ratchets
  20. To Open Mind, Clean Hands
  21. Remorseless Power
  22. Self-Control is Culture-Control
  23. Tools Unmask Desires
  24. Dumping on Denial
  25. Yglesias Gets It
  26. Frank Folds
  27. Proxy Access
  28. Ritual Questions
  29. Naked Hypocrisy
  30. Far is Hypocritical
  31. Good, Bad, & Ugly
  32. Unintended Consequences
  33. Paternalism Is About Respect
  34. Self-Esteem Healthier
  35. RIP Medical Hypotheses
  36. Sexual Hypocrisy
  37. High Ceilings Happy, Far
  38. Who Would Join What?
  39. Piling On Avatar
  40. Fight The Fighters
  41. Your Wife Does Understand You
  42. Silencing Outsider Status
  43. Is Happy Far?
  44. Is Blue Far?
  45. Unselfish Politicians
  46. Open Thread
  47. Confidence or Silence

April 2010

  1. Being Right Too Soon
  2. Eerie Errors
  3. Yell To The Sky?
  4. Unwanted Politicians
  5. The Gift of Status Affiliation
  6. True Tolerance
  7. What Tradition Knows
  8. Why Pretend?
  9. Negative Backwaters
  10. Med Like Car Insure?
  11. Democracy In Action
  12. Baby-Face Your CEO
  13. Clone Acceptance Markets
  14. Memories Lie
  15. Democracy Supports Hypocrisy
  16. Price Conspiracies
  17. I Am Sexist
  18. Unincorporated Man
  19. Wary Of Law
  20. Consulting Isn’t About Advice
  21. Slaves To Culture
  22. Conspiracy Capacities
  23. Beautiful
  24. Less Disaster
  25. Strange Law
  26. Why Rules Bend
  27. Zoos Don’t Help Animals
  28. The Dark Side Of Cooperation
  29. Why Speak Truth?
  30. Women Want Heavy Men
  31. Intuiting Too Much
  32. Homo Hypocritus Signals
  33. Mating Idealism
  34. Too Much Debate
  35. Paternalism Is Hard
  36. Me On Al Jazeera
  37. Left-Right Isn’t About Markets
  38. Overconfidence Looks Good
  39. Robots vs. Aliens vs. …
  40. Seek Peace, Not Values
  41. Consciousness as Middleman
  42. Trade Made Farms
  43. Young Heads, Old Hearts
  44. Diversity Classes Fail
  45. All Big Questions Or None?
  46. Open Thread

March 2010

  1. Movie Manipulation
  2. Govt Muzzles More
  3. “Knowing” Too Much
  4. Lord of the Factories
  5. Ems Like Alters?
  6. Is Curing Sybil Murder?
  7. Further Than Africa
  8. Sex Prizes
  9. Firms Won’t Experiment
  10. Inventors’ Two Cents
  11. Not Paleolithic Mating
  12. Homo Hypocritus
  13. Very Bad News
  14. How To Survey Confidence
  15. Is God Here To Stay?
  16. Forensic Delusions
  17. Future Discounts
  18. Twin Conspiracies
  19. Stop Stale Eggs, Jobs?
  20. Efficiency Disclaimers
  21. Uninsured ER Fallacy
  22. Efficient Isn’t Moral
  23. Ancestor Worship is Efficient
  24. Parable of the Multiplier Hole
  25. Hard Facts: Incentives
  26. Why Wash?
  27. Great Depression
  28. Hard Facts: Innovation
  29. Hard Facts: Med
  30. Hard Facts: Teaching
  31. Hard Facts: Mergers
  32. Motivated Legal Bias
  33. Managing Our Cut
  34. Realistic War Films?
  35. Prefer Ignorant Fans
  36. Econ of Nano, AI
  37. Near Is Selfish
  38. The Biggest Lie?
  39. No Offense Offends
  40. Hiding Handouts
  41. Open Thread

February 2010

  1. Only Trust Us
  2. Legalize Dud Drugs
  3. Big Bad News Ban
  4. Smart Beliefs
  5. National Juries
  6. Soothing the Sad Savage
  7. Ancient Hobbits
  8. Think Before Talk
  9. Fairness in Love And War
  10. Who Manages Best
  11. Do Larks Repress Owls?
  12. Mate Racism
  13. Mysticism’s Function
  14. Function of Stat Academia
  15. Uncritical Science News
  16. Two Kinds Of Status
  17. One Book To Save Them
  18. What Med Theory Matt?
  19. Drunk Is Near
  20. New Paleolithic Mating
  21. Hunger, Racism Sexy
  22. No Early Earth Life?
  23. Megan on Med
  24. Praise Polymaths
  25. Africa HIV: Perverts or Bad Med?
  26. Should Lies Be Free?
  27. Is The City-ularity Near?
  28. Distinguishing Defense
  29. Dreamtime Drama
  30. Tax Bank Collapse Risk?
  31. The Future of Sex
  32. Capital In Conflict
  33. Show, Sort, Shill
  34. No English Gene Classes
  35. Two Movies
  36. Not Guilty By Reading
  37. Risk Rating Reluctance
  38. Coordination Is Hard
  39. Come The Em Rev
  40. Open Thread

January 2010

  1. Hide Death?
  2. Uppity China
  3. Reward Robustness
  4. Swinger Trends
  5. Recent Appearances
  6. Legal Delusions
  7. Enable Raiders!
  8. Prefer Fem Babes?
  9. Predictable Failures
  10. Shallow Voter Cures
  11. Weighing Scientists
  12. School Is Not Healthy
  13. Believing Your Age
  14. Dissing Citizens
  15. Microecon of Media
  16. Free Hearing, Not Speech
  17. Food Not Med
  18. So Much Good News
  19. My Moldbug Debate
  20. Real Rationality
  21. Telescope Effect
  22. Shut Up Or Else
  23. Two Anecdotes
  24. Subsidize Experiences
  25. AI In Far And Near View
  26. Diffusion By Learning
  27. Innovation Levers
  28. States Sting Status
  29. Celebrating Compromise
  30. Status Audit
  31. Why Anti-Elite Era?
  32. Big Questions
  33. Helpful Inequality
  34. SF Area Meetup Friday
  35. How To Dis EMH
  36. Torture Kids Instead
  37. From Eternity To Here
  38. Keeping Us “Safe”
  39. After Armageddon
  40. Extreme Parenting
  41. Hewitt on Futarchy
  42. Will Tyler Tell?
  43. Disagreer’s Dilemna
  44. Why Comments Snark
  45. Fragile Free Speech
  46. This Isn’t News
  47. Forum = Meta-Method
  48. China Bashing
  49. Our World In Ape Eyes
  50. Open Thread

2009 494

December 2009

  1. Real Science
  2. Neutrality Isn’t Popular
  3. Smart Sincere Syndrome
  4. Docs vs MBAs
  5. World Government
  6. The Empire Bias
  7. Up In The Air
  8. Animal Smoking Studies
  9. Whence Scale Diseconomies?
  10. Smoking Trials Again
  11. Tiptoe Or Dash To Future?
  12. Long Legacies
  13. Meh Transhumanism
  14. Santa: Naughty Or Nice?
  15. Ho Hum Nuclear Winter
  16. China Ascendant
  17. Shoo Libertarian Knights
  18. Cheater Finder Fee?
  19. Why Read Old Thinkers?
  20. Naked Promiscuity
  21. Balance Blocks News Info
  22. Doubling Down On US Status
  23. Status Honesty
  24. Random Smoking Trials
  25. Football Decimation
  26. Aritists Need Not Be Nice
  27. Two Faces of Dreamtime
  28. “Oughts” Are Derived From “Is”
  29. Majoritarian Philosophy
  30. I Play Wonk at NYT
  31. Student Idealism
  32. Know Your Propaganda
  33. School Is Propaganda
  34. Less Reg = More Med
  35. Married Sex
  36. Microlending Fails
  37. Does Real = Feel?
  38. Comedy Is Cynical
  39. Feels Data Is In
  40. Privacy Is Far
  41. Date-Rape Drug Myth
  42. Wasted Cancer Hope
  43. OB Ads?
  44. Cosmic Clump Coincidence?
  45. Open Thread
  46. Hearts Vs. Heads

November 2009

  1. See “To Be”
  2. Philosophy Kills
  3. Panspermia Confirmed
  4. Hail The Unknown Explorer
  5. Make More Than GPA
  6. Bad Emulation Advance
  7. Parenting Is Not About Kids
  8. Conspiracies Confirmed
  9. Rah Price Manipulators
  10. Do Men Hurt More?
  11. Monogamy Is Human
  12. Academia Is Aging
  13. Status Quo Institution Bias
  14. Require Baby Paternity Test
  15. It’s News On Academia, Not Climate
  16. Byron vs. Wordsworth
  17. Smile Till It Hurts
  18. Praise Results
  19. Movies As Detached Detail
  20. Are You Pro Slavery?
  21. Execution Dignity
  22. Evolving Diverse Fragility
  23. Broken Symmetries
  24. Key Disputed Values
  25. Why Neglect Big Topics
  26. Contrarian Excuses
  27. Why Academics Aren’t Bayesian
  28. Humans Are Evolving
  29. Vegan Compromise
  30. What Status RQ?
  31. Tear Down This Wall
  32. Combo Prediction Markets Talk
  33. Caplan on Exposure Therapy
  34. Are Women Picky?
  35. Democracy Failings
  36. Beware Inward Apologetics
  37. Pretty Pols Win
  38. Pride Is About Status
  39. FDA Blunders
  40. Sports Signals
  41. Pondering Panspermia
  42. All Hail William Napier
  43. A Galactic Garden
  44. Inequality Is Down

October 2009

  1. Costumes And Identity
  2. Meetings As Flattery
  3. Farmers War
  4. Take Both Econ, Techies Seriously
  5. Beware Far Ethics
  6. Why Insider Trade Bans
  7. Georgetown Talk Today
  8. Missing Analogies
  9. Flu Shot Doubts
  10. Hide The Blood Money
  11. Could It Be That Easy?
  12. Bad News On Human Extinction
  13. The Right Questions
  14. Why Borg At Work, Not Home?
  15. Finance Profs Won’t Bet
  16. Beware Concept Intuitions
  17. Unequal Beauty Silence
  18. Power Beats Happiness
  19. What’s Pakistan’s Secret?
  20. Fertility Fall Still Puzzling
  21. Never Tell Me The Odds
  22. War From Near And Far
  23. Prefer Local Government
  24. What Is “Personal”?
  25. War Is Peace
  26. Med Decides If We’ll Get Richer
  27. Sex is Near, Love is Far
  28. Is Mass Transit Green?
  29. Let’s Not Kill All The Lawyers
  30. Prefer Law To Values
  31. Denying Dominance
  32. Fear of Near Death Thoughts
  33. Beware Book Learning
  34. Self Assured Destruction
  35. Disasters Are Worth Preventing
  36. In Praise Of Blackmail
  37. True Violence
  38. Open Thread
  39. Allowed Lies

September 2009

  1. For Doc Liability
  2. This is the Dream Time
  3. You Dislike Most Folks
  4. Explaining Unequal Inequality Aversion
  5. Poor Folks Do Smile
  6. The First Tech Bubble: 1720
  7. Thursday on Men’s Rights
  8. Future Fertility
  9. Income is Healthy, Not Earning, Spending It
  10. Limits To Growth
  11. The Sacrifice Trap
  12. Alas Shy Academics
  13. How Is Our Era Unique?
  14. Better Bill Scoring
  15. Walmart Med Is Better
  16. Height Puzzle
  17. Trust Puzzle
  18. There Is No Science
  19. Nature is Doomed
  20. The Dark Side of Cooperation
  21. Insurance As Signal
  22. What Do Nature Lovers Love?
  23. Gag Deals
  24. Painless Meat
  25. Catholic Girls
  26. Words Vs. Bets
  27. Obama’s Dreaming
  28. Just Beautiful
  29. Crazy Cones
  30. Against This Med Reform
  31. Alternate Free Speech Histories
  32. Seeing Red
  33. Prediction Markets As Collective Intelligence
  34. Ugly Thoughts On Pretty Enya
  35. For Med Free Speech
  36. Lost Charity
  37. Open Thread
  38. Disgust Works

August 2009

  1. Reliability Theory
  2. Our Nutrition Ignorance
  3. Cash Shy
  4. Today I’m 50
  5. Why Does Pharma Study Placebos?
  6. Tetlock Wisdom
  7. Pick One: Sick Kids or Look Poor
  8. Men Can Empathize, But Don’t
  9. Empathy Faces Are For Show
  10. What We Do When
  11. Singularity PR Dupes?
  12. Blogger Pots Call Senator Kettles Black
  13. Downturns Are Not Existential Risks
  14. Who Are US Policy Elites?
  15. A Test of Moral Progress
  16. Me in USA Today on SETI
  17. Klyde the Barbarian
  18. Tolstoy on Medicine
  19. Newer Best Game Theory
  20. The Confidence Heuristic
  21. Fiction And Females
  22. Lorentz Invariance, Not
  23. Social Brain Theory Confirmed
  24. Women Prefer Poaching
  25. Tax Investment
  26. Futarchy in BBC Focus Mag
  27. Indifference To Hospital Quality
  28. Moral Rules Are To Check Power
  29. Social Science Cuts Religiosity
  30. How Wrong Can We Be?
  31. Markets Stopped The Madness
  32. Actors See Status
  33. A Theory Of Identity
  34. What Purpose Self Insight?
  35. Blowhard Insight
  36. No Risk Premium?
  37. Shy And Badly Dressed
  38. Open Thread
  39. Brothel Bundles

July 2009

  1. Meds To Cut
  2. Fat Policy Is Not About Health
  3. Clinical Trial Sloppiness
  4. Are Juries About Guilt?
  5. Exposing Scientist Liberality
  6. Affirmative Action Isn’t About Uplift
  7. Who Will Fight Group Think?
  8. Social Collapse Vid
  9. Popular Fields Less Accurate
  10. The Meds In Spain Vary Mainly By The Plain
  11. Government Insurance Advantage?
  12. On The Origin Of Pigeons
  13. Medical Market Failures
  14. Reform Rate Signals
  15. Efficient Markets Confusion
  16. Media Scale Econ
  17. Fem Firm Finance
  18. Explain This Correlation
  19. Subsidize Investigative Journalism
  20. Beware Missing Signals
  21. How Exceptional Is Gelman?
  22. You Are A Character
  23. Conditional Love
  24. Language Drives Art
  25. Virtues of Policy Delay
  26. Academia’s Function
  27. Who Cares About Unsexy Men?
  28. 40% of US Moms Unwed
  29. How To Pop Bubbles
  30. What Are They Thinking?
  31. Simple Forecasts Best
  32. Do The Smart Help More?
  33. Stupider Than You Realize
  34. Improved Cores Unwanted
  35. Signaling Beats Race-IQ For Controversy
  36. I’m on MSNBC 9am EST
  37. War Is Brotherly

June 2009

  1. Why Not Home College?
  2. Redistribution Isn’t About Sympathy
  3. 8.3 Mortality Risk Ratio!
  4. What Conjunction Fallacy?
  5. How Fix Boards?
  6. Signals Are Forever
  7. Space Storm Insurance
  8. The Best Big Lies?
  9. Obama’s Opportunity Cost
  10. For The Truth, Ask Friends
  11. Why Signals Are Shallow
  12. Over The Top Commencement
  13. Blame Games
  14. Errors, Lies, and Self-Deception
  15. “Lazy” Hurt Less Than “Stupid”?
  16. Tyler Dares Obama
  17. Growth Mode Jump Example
  18. Space Towers
  19. Why Yes Men
  20. Kid Care Need Only Be Fun
  21. Remember The HMO Revolution
  22. Reply to Clarke
  23. Satisfied with Status Affiliation
  24. Defending Mankiw
  25. Pro “Slavery” OpEd
  26. Slow Potatos
  27. What Voting Signals
  28. What Chance a “Real” Possibility?
  29. Gullible Mimics
  30. Municipalize Medicine?
  31. Open Thread

May 2009

  1. Sweat Intuition
  2. CO2 Warming Looks Real
  3. Reply to Caplan
  4. Minimal Morality
  5. Political Signaling Theories
  6. Reply to Wilkinson
  7. Wilkinson on Side Effects
  8. Reinventing Idea Futures
  9. Reply to Gelman
  10. Just A Handshake
  11. Moving Hiatus
  12. Tax Unhappiness?
  13. Missing Liberaltarians
  14. Reply to Moldbug
  15. Against Admirable Activities, Again
  16. Gottschall’s Gotcha
  17. Spent = Gold + Schlock
  18. Spent‘s Main Argument
  19. Against Makeup?
  20. Mea Culpa: Positionality Data
  21. Luxury Fever
  22. Capitas Vs. Per Capita
  23. Animal Morality
  24. Near Far In Science Fiction
  25. Econ Neglects Licensing
  26. Desert Errors
  27. Ignoring Betrayal
  28. Tropes Are Treasures
  29. Pretending To Be What You Are
  30. The Growth Groove Game
  31. We Like Pride
  32. Engagement Swaps
  33. Prefer Peace
  34. Toward Honest Ideals
  35. Far Thoughts Fit Ideals
  36. Generous Lust
  37. Cloud Seeding Works
  38. Open Thread

April 2009

  1. Pox On Both Houses
  2. You Don’t Know Why You Act
  3. Beware Panic Panic
  4. Female Orgasm as Screening
  5. Prestige Matters More For Smarts
  6. Meta Institutions
  7. Less Wrong: Progress Report
  8. Why Refuse To Debate
  9. Wisdom of Rhode
  10. Score Your Beliefs
  11. NYC Meetup Friday 7pm
  12. Telephone Game With Functions
  13. Future Incompetence
  14. Ignorance About Intuitions
  15. Rarity Anomalies Remain
  16. Morals From Stories?
  17. Efficient Economist’s Pledge
  18. Fake Grammar Experts
  19. Home-Based Group Insurance
  20. On Liberty vs. Efficiency
  21. Comedic Actors Slighted?
  22. Rational Paranoia
  23. Who Loves Truth Most?
  24. Caplan-Hanson Debate Tuesday
  25. Self-Haters Donate More
  26. 911 Puzzling
  27. Talk Is Not About Info
  28. Haters Cheat Less
  29. Seek Superstar Slavery
  30. The what-pisses-you-off heuristic
  31. Silly Consensus
  32. Choke To Submit?
  33. Medical Ideology
  34. Another Call to End Aid to Africa
  35. Incentives, Allies Cut Bias
  36. Faith In Breasts
  37. Wrong Tomorrow
  38. Open Thread
  39. How Spend Rationality Test?

March 2009

  1. When Eyes Weigh
  2. Missing Alliances
  3. Past Hypothesis Taxonomy
  4. Scandalous Heat
  5. I’ll Be Different
  6. Echo Chamber Confidence
  7. Reveal Rejects?
  8. College Prestige Lies
  9. Signaling in Economics
  10. BSG is Detached Detail
  11. Minchin’s Mistake
  12. New Tech Signals
  13. Toddlers Avoid Dissenters
  14. The Pascal’s Wager Fallacy Fallacy
  15. Break Cryonics Down
  16. My Cryonics Hour
  17. My BHTV with Tyler Cowen
  18. Yes, Tax Lax Ideas
  19. Trusting Sponsored Medical Research
  20. Kid’s Rights
  21. Status Prudes
  22. More Getting Froze
  23. Wishful Dreaming
  24. Who Likes Band Music?
  25. Loving Cranks to Death
  26. As ye judge those who fund thee, ye shall be judged
  27. Evaporated Cane Juice
  28. Be sure to mind when you change your mind
  29. Posting now enabled on Less Wrong
  30. Lying With Style
  31. Question Medical Findings
  32. Six Months Later
  33. What Changed?
  34. Status Affiliation Puzzles
  35. OB meetup Friday 13th 7PM Springfield VA
  36. Augustine’s Paradox of optimal repentance
  37. Open Thread
  38. Near-Far Like Drunk Darts?

February 2009

  1. The Most Frequently Useful Thing
  2. The Most Important Thing You Learned
  3. Avoid Identifying With Anything?
  4. Tell Your Rationalist Origin Story… at Less Wrong
  5. What is Gossip For?
  6. Markets are Anti-Inductive
  7. Libel, Slander, Blackmail
  8. Formative Youth
  9. What Do Schools Sell?
  10. On Not Having an Advance Abyssal Plan
  11. Who Are Macro Experts?
  12. What is Medical Quality?
  13. Fairness vs. Goodness
  14. Rationality Quotes 27
  15. Write Your Hypothetical Apostasy
  16. Wise Pretensions v.0
  17. Pretending to be Wise
  18. Spotty Deference
  19. The intervention and the checklist: two paradigms for improvement
  20. Against Maturity
  21. Good Idealistic Books are Rare
  22. Seeking A Cynic’s Library
  23. Cynical About Cynicism
  24. Beware Value Talk
  25. An African Folktale
  26. Rationality Quotes 26
  27. An Especially Elegant Evpsych Experiment
  28. The Evolutionary-Cognitive Boundary
  29. Beware Ideal Screen Theories
  30. Signaling Math
  31. Cynicism in Ev-Psych (and Econ?)
  32. Informers and Persuaders
  33. Against Propaganda
  34. (Moral) Truth in Fiction?
  35. …And Say No More Of It
  36. The Thing That I Protect
  37. Our Biggest Surprise
  38. Epilogue: Atonement (8/8)
  39. Share likelihood ratios, not posterior beliefs
  40. True Ending: Sacrificial Fire (7/8)
  41. Conscious Control
  42. Normal Ending: Last Tears (6/8)
  43. Lying Stimuli
  44. Three Worlds Decide (5/8)
  45. Thoughtful Music
  46. Interlude with the Confessor (4/8)
  47. Open Thread
  48. The Super Happy People (3/8)

January 2009

  1. War and/or Peace (2/8)
  2. The Baby-Eating Aliens (1/8)
  3. Three Worlds Collide (0/8)
  4. Dreams as Evidence
  5. Academic Ideals
  6. Value is Fragile
  7. Roberts’ Bias Therapy
  8. Rationality Quotes 25
  9. Different meanings of Bayesian statistics
  10. OB Status Update
  11. 31 Laws of Fun
  12. BHTV: Yudkowsky / Wilkinson
  13. The Fun Theory Sequence
  14. Avoid Vena Cava Filters
  15. Rationality Quotes 24
  16. Higher Purpose
  17. Investing for the Long Slump
  18. Tribal Biases and the Inauguration
  19. Who Likes What Movies
  20. Failed Utopia #4-2
  21. Sunnyvale Meetup Saturday
  22. Set Obama’s Bar
  23. Interpersonal Entanglement
  24. Predictible Fakers
  25. Sympathetic Minds
  26. The surprising power of rote cognition
  27. In Praise of Boredom
  28. Beware Detached Detail
  29. Getting Nearer
  30. A Tale Of Two Tradeoffs
  31. Seduced by Imagination
  32. Data On Fictional Lies
  33. Justified Expectation of Pleasant Surprises
  34. Disagreement Is Near-Far Bias
  35. She has joined the Conspiracy
  36. Building Weirdtopia
  37. Eutopia is Scary
  38. Bad News Predictor Jailed
  39. Continuous Improvement
  40. Why We Like Middle Options, Small Menus
  41. Rationality Quotes 23
  42. Serious Stories
  43. Why Love Is Vague
  44. Rationality Quotes 22
  45. Free Docs Not Help Poor Kids
  46. Emotional Involvement
  47. Why Fiction Lies
  48. Rationality Quotes 21
  49. Changing Emotions
  50. Growing Up is Hard
  51. A World Without Lies?
  52. The Uses of Fun (Theory)
  53. Status-Biased Morality
  54. Open Thread
  55. Disagreeing About Doubt
  56. Free to Optimize
  57. Moral uncertainty – towards a solution?

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