The Curious Engineer

Overcoming Bias

2011–2014

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2014 160

December 2014

  1. The Evolution-Is-Over Fallacy
  2. Forged By Status
  3. You Don’t Rule The World
  4. What Are Aliens Like?
  5. The Next Status Game
  6. Pondering Plasticity
  7. “Slow” Growth Is Cosmo-Fast
  8. Me At NIPS Workshop
  9. Guess Alien Value, Chance Ratios
  10. Thank You GMU Econ!
  11. AI Boom Bet Offers
  12. On Stossel Tonight
  13. One In A Billion?
  14. Open Thread

November 2014

  1. Yes, Compare Nations
  2. Authentic =? Accepted
  3. Policy vs. Meta-Policy
  4. Hanson Loves Moose Caca
  5. Imagine Libertopia
  6. Conservative vs. Liberal Jobs
  7. Relishing Inequality
  8. Help Me Imagine 2
  9. Why Erase Childhood?
  10. Fair Movie Reviews
  11. The Puzzle Of Persistent Praise
  12. Connected-Task Cities Win
  13. SciCast Pays HUGE
  14. This Time Isn’t Different
  15. Open Thread

October 2014

  1. Philosophy Between The Lines
  2. “I Robot, You Unemployed”
  3. The Rosy View Bias
  4. Thrown’s Kit’s Self-Deception
  5. Em Software Results
  6. History Vs. Future
  7. Why Not Egg Futures?
  8. Em Software Engineering Bleg
  9. Why We Believe
  10. More Whales Please
  11. Good Job Templeton
  12. Cyprus Mail Profile
  13. Open Thread

September 2014

  1. Pretty Smart Healthy Privilege
  2. Hope For A Lumpy Filter
  3. Great Filter TEDx
  4. Did Industry Cause Nations?
  5. Tarot Counselors
  6. Do Economists Care?
  7. Open Thread

August 2014

  1. Beware Status Arrogance
  2. Fundamentalists Are Not Traditionalists
  3. Security Has Costs
  4. Liked For Being You
  5. Regulating Infinity
  6. Neglecting Win-Win Help
  7. Why Do We So Seek Synch?
  8. Automation vs. Innovation
  9. Part Of Something Big
  10. Open Thread

July 2014

  1. Irreducible Detail
  2. Adam Ford & I on Great Filter
  3. Lost For Words, On Purpose
  4. Conflicting Abstractions
  5. I Still Don’t Get Foom
  6. Tegmark’s Vast Math
  7. SciCast Pays Big Again
  8. Bets As Loyalty Signals
  9. More Stories As Religion
  10. Boston Talks This Week
  11. Near-Far Work Continues
  12. Will Rituals Return?
  13. Firm Inefficiency

June 2014

  1. Trustworthy Telepresence
  2. Auto-Auto Deadline Looms
  3. Status Bid Coalitions
  4. Paul Carr Interviews Me
  5. Why We Can’t Have Nice Things
  6. Big Scope Status Bias
  7. Mocking As Respect
  8. Bias Is A Red Queen Game
  9. Don’t Be “Rationalist”
  10. Forager Mating Returns
  11. Proverbs As Insight
  12. How Deep The Rabbit Hole?
  13. Open Thread

May 2014

  1. Days Of Our Lives
  2. Disagreement Is Far
  3. Reparations As Law
  4. Big Signals
  5. First Person Em Shooter
  6. SciCast Pays Out Big!
  7. Robot Econ in AER
  8. Em Econ @ Yale Thursday
  9. Jones, Beckstead, & I
  10. Sam Wilson Podcast
  11. Who/What Should Get Votes?
  12. Let’s Talk About Race
  13. Why Do Firms Buy Ads?
  14. Info As Excuse
  15. Michael Covel Interview
  16. Fixing Academia Via Prediction Markets
  17. Factory+Files Future
  18. Should You Kiss Ass?
  19. How Important Is Inequality?
  20. Open Thread

April 2014

  1. Cross Of The Moment Film
  2. Spanish Interview on Prediction Markets
  3. Abstractly Ideal, Concretely Selfish
  4. Rank-Linear Utility
  5. More Broken Evals
  6. GiveWell Interview
  7. Humanity Can’t Steer Its Future Much
  8. Help Me Imagine
  9. When Will Schools Space, Interleave, and Vary Practice?
  10. The Up Side Of Down
  11. The Future Of Intellectuals
  12. Multiplier Isn’t Reason Not To Wait
  13. Rah Manic Monopolists?
  14. Review of LockStep
  15. Who Gains From Grit?
  16. Reason, Stories Tuned for Contests
  17. To The Barricades
  18. Extremists Compete
  19. Open Thread

March 2014

  1. NASA Goddard Talk Monday
  2. Conspiracy Theory, Up Close & Personal
  3. Social Science Exists
  4. Me On Fox Friday
  5. Computing Cost Floor Soon?
  6. Academic Stats Prediction Markets
  7. Socializers Clump
  8. Hidden Asset Taxes Must Be Huge
  9. Why Neglect Social Results?
  10. Leadership Fantasies
  11. Prefer Contrarian Questions
  12. Moral Legacy Myths
  13. Open Thread

February 2014

  1. Fail Faster
  2. Dvorsky Em Interview
  3. My Little Finger
  4. Dust In The Wind
  5. Gopnik on Religion
  6. Me Talking Thrice
  7. Engineering v. Design
  8. What Cost Variety?
  9. Rah Local Politics
  10. Open Thread

January 2014

  1. Why Broken Evals?
  2. Trends Rarely Inform Policy
  3. Who Wants Standards?
  4. Advice Isn’t About Info
  5. I Was Wrong
  6. Anxiety Du Jour Books
  7. Her Isn’t Realistic
  8. Tech Regs Are Coming
  9. One Cam Net To Rule Them All?
  10. Freedom As Identity
  11. Why Info Push Dominates
  12. Announcing: SciCast
  13. Open Thread

2013 180

December 2013

  1. A Missing Status Move
  2. Rejection Via Advice
  3. Next Step, Exogamy?
  4. Who Care About Econ Errors?
  5. Me in The Futurist
  6. The Need To Believe
  7. Wyden Puff Piece Errors
  8. Comics Vs. Cases
  9. Open Thread

November 2013

  1. Why Aren’t Cities Taller?
  2. Snowden: Hero
  3. Dec 4,5 Abu Dhabi Talks
  4. World Inequality Is Down
  5. Careers Need Allies
  6. Testing An Idealistic-Tech Hypothesis
  7. Me on RT America Soon
  8. A Future Of Pipes
  9. Graeme Wood on Futarchy
  10. The Coalition Politics Hypothesis
  11. To Learn, Try
  12. Speculators Foresee No Catastrophe
  13. Open Thread

October 2013

  1. Financing Starships
  2. Joiners v. Middlers
  3. Love Is An Interpretation
  4. Beware Value Talk
  5. Writers Focus On Topic Or Audience?
  6. Finance Celebrated, Ignored
  7. Stories Change Goals
  8. In Praise Of Profanity
  9. Graeber’s Debt book
  10. On End Of Period Spending
  11. Open Thread

September 2013

  1. Dark Pain, Dark Joy
  2. 1/6 of US Deaths From Hospital Errors
  3. The ‘What If Failure?’ Taboo
  4. Fewer Harder Steps
  5. Wanted: Know-It-Some Critics
  6. Why Think Of The Children?
  7. On Accidental Altruists
  8. Boss Hypocrisy
  9. Let Re-Discovery Evade Patents
  10. Value Explosions Are Rare
  11. Debate Is Now Book
  12. Expect Bigger Orgs
  13. Wealth, Not Robots, Makes Us Lazy
  14. Open Thread

August 2013

  1. The Why-Policy-Wiki
  2. Teaching Ignorance
  3. Math: Useful & Over-Used
  4. Silent Line-Videos Pick Music Winners
  5. Why Is Law Fertile For Econ?
  6. Political System Change Is Weird
  7. `Best’ Is About `Us’
  8. Em- vs Non-Em- AGI Bet
  9. Seven Million Visits
  10. Inequality Talk Is About Grabbing
  11. Are War Critics Selfish?
  12. Missing Measurements
  13. Open Thread

July 2013

  1. That Old SF Prejudice
  2. Beware Star Academia
  3. Exemplary Futurism
  4. Ponder Questions
  5. Impressive Power
  6. Me on PBS Off Book
  7. Drexler and I Again
  8. I’m On After Bill Gates
  9. Why Do Bets Look Bad?
  10. Drexler Responds
  11. Happiness vs. Meaning
  12. Suspecting Truth-Hiders
  13. Bets Argue
  14. Adam Ford Interview
  15. Me On Big Picture Science
  16. Open Thread

June 2013

  1. Imagine Farmer Rights
  2. Random Rights Are Bad
  3. Is Govt Over-Regulated?
  4. Why Not Non-Fiction Lyrics?
  5. School Status Stops Kids
  6. Whistleblowers Think Far
  7. Future Story Status
  8. My Critique Of Drexler
  9. Drexler on Engineering
  10. What Do We Know That We Can’t Say?
  11. Why Do Algorithms Gain Like Chips?
  12. Open Thread

May 2013

  1. Reward or Punish?
  2. Best Combos Are Robust
  3. Individualism Is Far
  4. Bits Of Secrets
  5. The Poor Wore Color
  6. French Fertility Fall
  7. Best To Mix Odd, Ordinary
  8. Thought Crime Hypocrisy
  9. Imagining Futures Past
  10. High Road Doubts
  11. Robot Econ Primer
  12. Your Honesty Budget
  13. Cooperate Or Specialize?
  14. Beware Extended Family
  15. US Record All Calls?
  16. Delay Cosmology
  17. Tax Old Firms More?

April 2013

  1. Why Play Concert Piano?
  2. Estonia Talk Friday
  3. False Flag Forecasts
  4. Diagnosis Futures
  5. In Praise Of Ads
  6. Social Network Hypocrisy
  7. Rituals Understood?
  8. Policy Trial By Combat
  9. Em Econ At Harvard
  10. Real Real Estate Agents
  11. Advertising Podcast
  12. Talkative Sell, Silent Buy
  13. If More Now, Less Later
  14. This Is A Personal Blog Again
  15. Civilization Vs. Human Desire
  16. A City Is A Village Of Villages
  17. In favour of finite meta

March 2013

  1. Economists too thoughtful to be kind
  2. Better living through predestination
  3. Rich Is Far
  4. Weirdos and foreigners
  5. What About The Future Matters?
  6. Bay Area Events
  7. Why Good Is Crazy
  8. Rah Second Opinions
  9. Slowing Computer Gains
  10. When seeing X suggests ‘generally ¬X’
  11. Sleep Signaling
  12. Should I stop using my phone as a pedestrian?
  13. In the long run, we’re all still exposed to risk
  14. On Disowning Descendants
  15. R&D Is Local, Global, But Not National
  16. Personal experimentation: summary
  17. Why it should be easy to dominate GiveWell’s recommendations

February 2013

  1. What Predicts Growth?
  2. Who is setting global priorities?
  3. Is most research a waste?
  4. Bike Helmet Laws Fail
  5. Goldilocks Disruptions
  6. Farmers’ New Rituals
  7. Is Social Science Extremist?
  8. Which biases matter most? Let’s prioritise the worst!
  9. Foom Debate, Again
  10. What motivates cognition?
  11. Personal experimentation: I’m wrong?
  12. Beware Far Values
  13. Freedom to comment isn’t free
  14. Is US gun control an important issue?
  15. The SAEE: who was right?
  16. Real Drama
  17. Open Thread

January 2013

  1. Personal experimentation: context specific?
  2. Rah Simple Scenarios
  3. US laissez-faire serves a greater global good
  4. Personal experimentation: not shared?
  5. Hypocritical Fairness
  6. Personal experiments: fueled by innovation?
  7. Ask Questions That Matter
  8. Life on farms may be worse than death
  9. A History Of Foom
  10. Machiavelli On Listening
  11. Beware Life Insurance
  12. Personal experiments: for the unusual?
  13. Hail Scott *****
  14. Social Norms Are Far
  15. Morality as though it really mattered
  16. Democracy Is Competition
  17. Tower Of Babel Still
  18. Thank You TrikeApps!
  19. Why personal experimentation?
  20. Which supplements should a healthy person take?
  21. Here Not Be Dragons
  22. Ethics For A Broken World
  23. Middle-Age Is Near
  24. Open Thread

2012 293

December 2012

  1. More signaling
  2. Death Is Very Sad
  3. Beware Gods Out There
  4. Reasons To Reject
  5. Why don’t futurists try harder to stay alive?
  6. Future Filter Fatalism
  7. Silly Mayans
  8. Today Is Filter Day
  9. Not Science, Not Speculation
  10. Grounded Visionaries
  11. Filters and bottlenecks
  12. Why Am I Weird?
  13. Em Econ, London Style
  14. At Loooooong Last
  15. Combo Markets, Live!
  16. Breeding happier livestock: no futuristic tech required
  17. Biases Of Fiction
  18. Open Thread
  19. College Admission Markets

November 2012

  1. Zitzewitz The Wise
  2. A King is fine, so long as he’s one of us
  3. Freakonomics On Consulting
  4. Marginal Charity
  5. Invent yourself and think through your impact – graduation ceremony speech
  6. Can a tiny bit of noise destroy communication?
  7. Grace-Hanson Podcast
  8. On Friend Jealousy
  9. Dec 7 DC Em Econ Talk
  10. Working Class Futures
  11. Could risk aversion be from friend thresholds?
  12. Why Not Pre-Books?
  13. Brands Show Identity
  14. Was Intrade being manipulated over the last month?
  15. Is Paper Low Status?
  16. Wanted: Elite Crowds
  17. Nuclear winter and human extinction: Q&A with Luke Oman
  18. Why underestimate acceptable partners?
  19. Does complexity bias biotechnology towards doing damage?
  20. Young Idealist Reply
  21. Open Thread

October 2012

  1. Impatient Idealism
  2. Lean Pork
  3. The value of time as a student
  4. Two Kinds of Panspermia
  5. Female Overconfidence
  6. The transitivity of trust
  7. Respectable Resentment
  8. Arresting irrational information cascades
  9. Alms is not about alms experts
  10. On Play Hell
  11. Info Ideology
  12. Welcome Carl Shulman
  13. Can Humans Be The FORTRAN Of Creatures?
  14. Sleep Is To Save Energy
  15. Paternalism can be kind, just not to present-you
  16. We Add Near, Average Far
  17. Open Thread

September 2012

  1. Miller’s Singularity Rising
  2. US Politics Of Medicine
  3. Why Admire Brags?
  4. If elections aren’t a Pascal’s mugging, existential risk shouldn’t be either
  5. Rude research
  6. Covert virtue – the signal that doesn’t bark?
  7. USA, Beware 2020
  8. Significance and motivation
  9. OB/LW Party, Berkeley
  10. Inequality /=> Revolt
  11. How to motivate women to speak up
  12. 3 Em Econ Talks Soon
  13. The Alms Expert Opening
  14. Missing Life-Lessons
  15. Signaling bias in philosophical intuition
  16. Placebos Show Care
  17. Functions /= Tautologies
  18. Theories vs. Metaphors
  19. A Survey Question
  20. Information won’t set you free by itself
  21. The Functions Of Faith
  22. Open Thread

August 2012

  1. Surplus splitting strategy
  2. Sex At Dusk v. Dawn
  3. How To Vote
  4. AI Progress Estimate
  5. Fairy Tales Were Cynical
  6. Middle-aged not miserable, just too busy to answer surveys
  7. More 2D Values
  8. On the goodness of Beeminder
  9. Dirty Air Kills
  10. Shoo Freethinkers
  11. Grace-Hanson Podcast
  12. Silly Is Serious
  13. No theory X in shining armour
  14. Why Not Agents For All?
  15. Disorganized collection growth
  16. Is World Government Inevitable?

July 2012

  1. The Riddle of Ritual
  2. Old Minds Are Fragile
  3. BSG As Horror Tale
  4. Ethical heuristics
  5. What Is Your Sermon?
  6. The geoengineering double catastrophe
  7. Prediction Markets “Fail” To Mooch
  8. Life after death for Pascal’s Wager?
  9. Astrology Up Close
  10. Far Mode Overly Praised
  11. Brain Prize Eval Fund Near Enough
  12. Robot ethics returns
  13. Why Complex Life Is Rare
  14. Leonhardt Blows It
  15. Responsibility and Clicking
  16. Open Thread
  17. We Can Do Low-Treewidth Combinatorial Prediction Markets!
  18. Finding “Our” Beliefs

June 2012

  1. Good friends can make bad business partners
  2. Fragmented status doesn’t help
  3. Work, Play Extremes
  4. Frozen Or Plastic Brain?
  5. Does life flow towards flow?
  6. Your existence is informative
  7. Fixation Is Near
  8. I Talk At Oxford Wednesday
  9. Resolving Paradoxes of Intuition
  10. Story Rules
  11. This Is A Group Blog Again
  12. Pure Evil
  13. Who Believes These?
  14. Hypocrisy In The Lab
  15. War Injustice
  16. More On Music Function
  17. What Function Music?
  18. The Smart Are MORE Biased To Think They Are LESS Biased
  19. Wither The Industrial Revolution?
  20. Krugman On Future Econ
  21. Road Rage Is Morality
  22. Tech Firms Enslave Us?
  23. When Is “Soon”?
  24. Open Thread
  25. Grace-Hanson Podcasts

May 2012

  1. Work Face Signals
  2. Work Signals
  3. Slang Signals
  4. Teacher Remembered
  5. Experts Agree
  6. We Have Comment Likes
  7. War Games Are Fake
  8. Forager, Farmer Morals
  9. Closer Horizons
  10. Eventual Futures
  11. Why Is Death Bad?
  12. Why National Med?
  13. Schools Are For War
  14. Innovation Is Random
  15. Six Million Visits
  16. Taming The Wild Idea
  17. Stories Are Like Religion
  18. Testing My Growth Model
  19. Illusory Power Transference
  20. Death of a Salesman
  21. Far Truth Is For Extremes
  22. What Use Far Truth?
  23. Is Conflict Inevitable?
  24. Hypocritical Flattery
  25. Academic Blog Credit?
  26. Open Thread

April 2012

  1. Those Who Love Work
  2. Votes Are Nearer Than Vote Talk
  3. Who Wants Unbiased Journals?
  4. Analysis Is Far Skeptical
  5. Big Changes Test Econ
  6. Tube Earth Econ
  7. Government As Charity
  8. Fair Date Reporting Act
  9. Sleep Is Far
  10. Jiro Lives Worth Living
  11. Leigh on Ems
  12. Morality Should Be Adaptive
  13. Morality Should Exist
  14. Anissimov On Ems
  15. Are The Trendy Shallow?
  16. Inequality Is Diversity
  17. Is Peripheral Vision Far?
  18. Em Need For Speed
  19. Mail Order Is Far
  20. Murphy on Growth Limits
  21. Henson On Ems
  22. Hail The Radiation Model
  23. Near Cares More
  24. Consulate Care
  25. Em Econ 101 Talk
  26. Ban Election Arguments?
  27. Donors Affiliate
  28. Happy Is Far
  29. On Moral Hypocrisy
  30. An Info King
  31. N. Calif. Talk, Meetup

March 2012

  1. Our Quiet Galaxy
  2. What Is Private?
  3. Anxiety Is Near
  4. Friends Vs. Family
  5. Me on Al Jazeera again
  6. Foragers Were Naked
  7. Egan’s Zendegi
  8. You Are Panem’s Capitol
  9. Med Media Mangle
  10. Haves And Have-Nots
  11. Just A Flesh Wound
  12. Saints And Burdens
  13. Unpainted For Far
  14. Doctors Dominate
  15. Continuous Cooperation
  16. Disagreement Experiment
  17. Selling Praise
  18. How To Influence People
  19. Manzi On Trials, Consulting
  20. Why Not Compromise?
  21. Police Dominate
  22. Today’s Insults
  23. How To Win Friends
  24. Seeking Firm Info Hypocrisy Examples
  25. The Costs Of Savoring
  26. For Useful Computers, You Have To Fire People
  27. Owls Are Far
  28. Happy Is Lonely
  29. Why Not Let Kids Vote?
  30. Private Firms Earn 3% More
  31. Elites Excel At Hypocrisy
  32. Open Thread

February 2012

  1. Hutter on Singularity
  2. Turbulence Contrarians
  3. Is Pessimism Immoral?
  4. The Tree of Life is Far
  5. Charles Murray, Farmer
  6. Econ Advice Confirmed
  7. Keynes’ Forager Future
  8. Why Retire?
  9. Why Allow Lies?
  10. Are Firms Like Trees?
  11. Immoral Altruism
  12. How Social Are Signals?
  13. Don’t Torture Mom & Dad
  14. Me On Marketplace
  15. Dog vs. Cat Medicine
  16. Farm vs Pet Medicine
  17. On Being Self-Aware
  18. Rah Power Laws
  19. Paying For Med Quality
  20. Info Market Failure
  21. Trade Dominance
  22. Housing Envy
  23. Personality Is Overt
  24. You & The Distant Future
  25. This Is the Plane Era
  26. Missing Work Stories
  27. What is Finding Welfare?
  28. What Is Econ Advice?
  29. Inequality Market Failure?
  30. Deals Near, Morals Far?
  31. Financial Mood
  32. Status In Law, Finance
  33. Status As Strength

January 2012

  1. Too Much Consulting?
  2. Rising City Inequality
  3. The Future Of Inequality
  4. The History of Inequality
  5. Ideals Can Conflict
  6. Far Idealism Hypocrisy
  7. Who Talks Politics?
  8. Who Wants Kid $ Insure?
  9. Virtual Office Design
  10. Sex Ratio & Violence
  11. Sex Ratio Signaling
  12. Classical Music As Tax
  13. Religion Gets Bad Rap
  14. Silence Suggests Sim?
  15. Hail John Watkins
  16. Imagine Being Wrong
  17. Why Hate Firms, Love Cities?
  18. Brin Says Cryonics Selfish
  19. Why Silence Puzzles
  20. Future Wealth Inequity
  21. Old Money Goes Broke
  22. Inequality Math
  23. Unspeakable Arrogance
  24. Eye Candy Shows Slack?
  25. You’d Take The Million
  26. We Need The Very Rich
  27. Hatin’ On Farmers
  28. All In Their Heads
  29. Intransitivity Is Invisible
  30. Dear Young Eccentric
  31. Regulatory Differences
  32. Open Thread
  33. Heads In The Sand

2011 404

December 2011

  1. Me-Now Immortality
  2. Low Status Workers Are NOT More “Exploited”
  3. Most Are Consequentialist
  4. Steps Up The Ladder
  5. Why Exempt The Hard To Catch?
  6. Why Work Hour Limits?
  7. Beware Inspiration
  8. Construction Peaks At 60Hr/Wk
  9. Work Hour Skepticism
  10. Excess Loyalty Signals
  11. Overconfidence Explained
  12. Seeking What-Work-Cuts Stories
  13. Desires Surveyed
  14. Why Boom Times Kill
  15. Hurry Or Delay Ems?
  16. Misers Are Too Fair
  17. On School’s Function
  18. Consider Exile
  19. Talk Rules Are Classist
  20. Offended By Bets
  21. Life Is Good
  22. Info Cuts Charity
  23. La Difference
  24. Creativity Clues
  25. DC Area Meetup Sunday
  26. Easy Job Fix?
  27. Literature Research
  28. Gossip Hypocrisy
  29. Suits Show Signal Scope
  30. Over-Regulated Flight
  31. Inspiring Innovation
  32. Em City By Combo Auction
  33. Open Thread
  34. City By Combo Auction

November 2011

  1. Office By Combo Auction
  2. The Protection Exception
  3. Near Is Warm, Relational
  4. Nostalgia Example
  5. Data On Sarcasm
  6. Japan’s Fat Tax
  7. Atheists Distrusted
  8. Alcohol As Placebo
  9. Can’t Hear Bad News
  10. True School Believers
  11. Every Move You Make
  12. Trillions At War
  13. Second Chances
  14. Galaxy Calc Shows Aliens
  15. Buying Affiliation
  16. Science Fiction Is Far
  17. Forget Salt
  18. Invisible Winks
  19. Political Puzzles
  20. Accepted Inequality
  21. Fear Causes Trust, Blindness
  22. When See Solar?
  23. The Future Of Lies
  24. More Random Hypocrisy
  25. Honesty Via Distraction
  26. Fixing Election Markets
  27. Status Drives Poverty?
  28. Official Optimism
  29. Open Thread
  30. Why Weak Charity Rules?

October 2011

  1. In Time Economics
  2. Daniel Sarewitz, Me on BHTV
  3. Bad Sound, Bad Sign
  4. Me On Ideas In Action
  5. Smiles Signal
  6. The Puberty Puzzle
  7. Middle Is Near
  8. It’s Called “Stock”
  9. Kurzweil Rejects Ems
  10. US Grows Most ’70-’10
  11. Transferable Citizenship
  12. Impossible Is Real
  13. Limits of Imagination
  14. The Future Of Cities
  15. The End of Possibility
  16. Hidden Trade Barriers
  17. A Theory Of Status
  18. Allen & Greaves On Ems
  19. What Status Ems?
  20. Trends Worth Tracking
  21. Causes Of Corruption
  22. Science Fiction Isn’t About Understanding The Future
  23. Historical Heresy
  24. (Fem) Sex Is Selfish
  25. Municipalize Drug Law
  26. We See Dominance
  27. Parent Vs. Kid Status
  28. ‘Never Settle’ Is A Brag
  29. Tyler On Robots
  30. Shulman On Superorgs
  31. Grace-Hanson Podcasts
  32. Advising For Status
  33. Charity And Temptation
  34. Money Matters
  35. Open Thread

September 2011

  1. Irrelevant Relevance
  2. On Futurism
  3. Aged Wisdom
  4. Do Liars Care More?
  5. Moneyball Slavery
  6. Fertility Fall Myths
  7. We Ban Lies, To Officials
  8. More Inequality, Merited
  9. Adapt Or Start Over?
  10. Nature Ignores Econ
  11. Let Us Give To Future
  12. Beware Mind Drugs
  13. Is Confidence Social?
  14. Info Cuts Confidence
  15. Downturn Cuts Exercise
  16. Are Nations Tribes?
  17. Physics vs. Economics
  18. Hail Temple, Buck
  19. Firms Fight Risk
  20. Forget 9/11
  21. We Live, Unequally
  22. Three Writing Styles
  23. Pronoun Inflation
  24. Is Selfless Evil Far?
  25. Inbred Law Schools
  26. Obstacles Are Far
  27. Predict Yourself
  28. Who Cheats
  29. Counter Indoctrination
  30. Open Thread
  31. Join The DAGGRE Team
  32. Me On FastForward

August 2011

  1. Religion As Standard
  2. Rah Self-Incrimination
  3. Economists’ Best Advice
  4. Against Terror
  5. Creativity Lip Service
  6. Bashing Billionaires
  7. Learn From A&P
  8. On Fudge Factors
  9. What We Should Study
  10. Concept Inflation
  11. Theory And Fashion
  12. My Stossel Clip
  13. What Is Reasoning For?
  14. How Many Levels?
  15. New Scientist Contest
  16. Hypocrites Have Flings
  17. Emotionally, Men Are Far, Women Near
  18. Indulging In Indirection
  19. Leading Isn’t About Info
  20. Blackmail Enforces Law
  21. The Beauty Bias
  22. Our Gossip Muddle
  23. Defenses of Hypocrisy
  24. The Future Is Further
  25. Why I’m Not Libertarian
  26. Real Policing
  27. Blackmail Is Gossip+
  28. Blackmail History
  29. Charity Blackmail?
  30. More Disagreement Is Far
  31. Subtle Signals
  32. The Poor Are Not Fat
  33. Still Scandalous Heat
  34. Dark Is Far
  35. Are Spirits Dark?
  36. Pigheaded Specialists
  37. Teachers As Dictators
  38. Open Thread

July 2011

  1. Sleepy Kids Learn Less
  2. Why Men Are Bad At “Feelings”
  3. Expats Like Cryonics
  4. Rah Efficient IP
  5. A Galaxy On Earth
  6. Whence Better Brains?
  7. Me On Good Morning America
  8. Making Up Opinions
  9. Me in New Scientist on Sims
  10. Cynicism Is Near And Far
  11. Group Moral Licensing
  12. Will We Ban Tone Readers?
  13. IP+ Like Barbed Wire?
  14. Tests For Hedgehogs?
  15. The Oregon Health Insurance Experiment
  16. Why Hate Anti-Star Trek?
  17. Regulating Gossip
  18. Why Magic + Nostalgia?
  19. Innovation >50% GDP?
  20. Upload Skepticism
  21. Idealizing Research
  22. Respect Forecast Accuracy
  23. Coworker vs. Class Envy
  24. My Freak On Again
  25. Grace-Hanson Podcasts
  26. School Signal Investing
  27. They’d Take The Million
  28. Beware Morality Porn
  29. Why Non-Profits?
  30. The Great “Charity” Storm
  31. Classic Charities
  32. Hail War And Peace
  33. Debating Yudkowsky
  34. Chalmers Reply #2
  35. Ignoring Small Chances
  36. Open Thread
  37. Me on Freakonomics

June 2011

  1. Words Show Lies
  2. Priceless Fertility
  3. Who Is Consistent?
  4. Cheated-On Personalities
  5. NYC Meetup Tuesday 7p
  6. New Is Not Better
  7. Selection Is Slow
  8. Live Long Or Wide?
  9. Only Do Math Homework
  10. Sleeping Beauty’s Assistant
  11. Stross on Singularity
  12. Regulating Cool
  13. The Betterness Explosion
  14. Travel Made Humans
  15. Revised Growth Claim
  16. Raid The Rich
  17. I’m A Sim, Or You Aren’t
  18. Wolfers Gets Loopy
  19. Space vs. Time Genocide
  20. In Favor Of Flogging
  21. More Natural Hypocrisy
  22. Women Enforce Norms
  23. Left vs. Right Dictators
  24. OB, Now With Votes
  25. Rich Happy Individualists
  26. Paying To Harass?
  27. Dreamtime Finance
  28. Congress Sells Secrets?
  29. Bad Boss Advice
  30. Who Watches Watchers?
  31. The Rich Have More Kids
  32. Who Wants Accuracy?
  33. Seeking Alien Trash
  34. Space vs. Time Allies
  35. Is Time Us, Space Them?
  36. First Cryonics Hour
  37. Promises Signal
  38. Beware Big Bad Novelties
  39. Punish Sleep-Rape
  40. Subtext Beats Text
  41. Let Brits Do US Med Eval
  42. Open Thread

May 2011

  1. Industry At Home
  2. Beware Men With Sticks
  3. Letting Leaders Off
  4. Blocked State Innovation
  5. Status And Glory
  6. The Poor Don’t Revolt
  7. No Generic City Effect
  8. School Death Puzzle
  9. Jobs Kill, BIG Time
  10. 5 Million Visits
  11. Death Cause Correlates
  12. Skip Cancer Screens
  13. Beware Cancer Med
  14. How US States Vary
  15. Life Is Scarce
  16. Who Beats What
  17. Don’t “Believe”
  18. Skill Awareness Biases
  19. On Clark And Caplan
  20. Neglected Conflicts
  21. Who Killed Autopsies?
  22. Conscription Is Slavery
  23. Two Recent Talks
  24. The Mysterious Desert
  25. The People’s Romance
  26. Regulatory Bias
  27. The Hypocrisy Curtain
  28. Strange Salt
  29. Some Good News
  30. Medical Wealth Effects
  31. Big Firms Block Gains
  32. Philosophy of Hypocrisy
  33. Ems Freshly Trained?
  34. Super-Watch Dilemna
  35. Min Em Wage Enslaves?
  36. Open Thread

April 2011

  1. Consider Conspiracies
  2. What Is Em “Death”?
  3. Are Workaholics Human?
  4. What Is “Quality”?
  5. Natural Hypocrisy
  6. Reply To Karl Smith
  7. My CQ Researcher OpEd
  8. Join The Party Party?
  9. One Pill To Break Us All
  10. Unhappy Is OK
  11. I Talk Wed. At Harvard
  12. The SETI Game
  13. Blame Victims For Lies
  14. What Do I Want To Know?
  15. Kling On School
  16. What Aren’t They Thinking?
  17. Rah Arrogance
  18. On Berserkers
  19. Avoiding Death Is Far
  20. Two-Faced Brains
  21. Act Young To Live Long
  22. Trust Govt More?
  23. Evading Sharing Rules
  24. Statusful Regulation
  25. Why Wake Teens Early?
  26. More On Kid Work
  27. News You Can Use
  28. More Bits
  29. Fear Water
  30. Child Labor Hypocrisy
  31. Longevity Film Trailer
  32. BHTV with Brian Christian
  33. Earth Is Not Random
  34. Open Thread

March 2011

  1. Play Talk Still Tells
  2. Why Track Trends?
  3. Hail Aggressive Drivers
  4. Boston Talk Monday
  5. Recipe: Men Exploit Fems
  6. War Is Bad
  7. Missing Coordination
  8. What The Eyes Say
  9. Solar Savior
  10. Are Dictators The Future?
  11. Against IRBs
  12. Responsibility Is Near
  13. Seek Criticism
  14. Choose: Help Or Show Concern
  15. Academic Sycophants
  16. Farmers Commit
  17. Music Signals Status
  18. My Surprises
  19. An Innovation Lesson
  20. Modular Innovation
  21. Are Gardens Fertile?
  22. I Hurt Her So You Pay
  23. Self-Indulgence Stinks
  24. Alien Life Info, But Not Status, Found
  25. Econ of AI on BHTV
  26. The Unskilled Are Aware
  27. Why Laugh At Nerds
  28. Skyscraper Scale Econ
  29. Open Thread
  30. Beware Local Smoothing

February 2011

  1. Hail Winter’s Bone
  2. Easterly On Swimsuits
  3. Against DIY Academics
  4. Hail Julie Henderson
  5. Elite College Fems Earn Less
  6. Fat Is Low Status
  7. Teaching Science Process
  8. Status Isn’t About Features
  9. Our Worthy Overlords
  10. Me On Stossel
  11. Art Is Power
  12. Manners Show Status
  13. CMU Talk Tuesday
  14. The Big Failure
  15. Beware Knives
  16. Forbidden Fertility
  17. What Virtue Privacy?
  18. Privilege Marks Status
  19. How Med Harms
  20. Fear As Scapegoat
  21. Aliens Not So Strange
  22. Strictness Aids Hypocrisy
  23. Why No Job Paternalism?
  24. Open Border Cost
  25. Why Tax The Rich?
  26. Indirect Charity
  27. Open Thread

January 2011

  1. Can Kids Consent?
  2. No DVR Ad Effect
  3. Non-Evil Firms
  4. Is Culture Far?
  5. Kids Too Specialized?
  6. Best Decade Ever
  7. How Good Are Laughs?
  8. Nutrition Labels
  9. Be A Charity Angel
  10. Passion Vs. Doubt
  11. The Accidental Hypocrite
  12. Dumb Farmers
  13. Voting Is A Far Fest
  14. Define By Consequences
  15. Beware “Consensus”?
  16. Signal Mappers Decouple
  17. Academics As Warriors
  18. Against Voter Foresight
  19. The Future Is Bright
  20. What Is “Belief”?
  21. Why Not Censor?
  22. Unequal Folks Save
  23. Bad News: Kant & Bets
  24. True Em Grit
  25. How To Doubt
  26. Lift Up Your Eyes
  27. Roberts On Robots
  28. Beware Fruits, Veggies?
  29. Open Thread

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