What are some of Robin Hanson's best posts?
post by Richard_Ngo (ricraz) · 2019-07-02T20:58:01.202Z · LW · GW · No commentsThis is a question post.
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Edit: in particular those which aren't covered in his books.
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Here are some, based mainly on a search for which ones I've linked to before:
Distinguish Info, Analysis, Belief, Action
Two Types of People (foragers and farmers)
And, since I think he published better writings outside of his blog, here's a longer list of those:
Shall We Vote on Values, But Bet on Beliefs?
How YOU Do Not Tell the Truth: Academic Disagreement as Self-Deception
He Who Pays The Piper Must Know The Tune
Burning the Cosmic Commons: Evolutionary Strategies for Interstellar Colonization
Long-Term Growth As A Sequence of Exponential Modes
Economic Growth Given Machine Intelligence
Fear of Death and Muddled Thinking - It Is So Much Worse Than You Think
When Do Extraordinary Claims Give Extraordinary Evidence?
WHY HEALTH IS NOT SPECIAL: ERRORS IN EVOLVED BIOETHICS INTUITIONS
pull the rope sideways: http://www.overcomingbias.com/2019/03/tug-sideways.html
neglected and big: http://www.overcomingbias.com/2017/02/neglected-big-problems.html
crucial considerations: http://www.overcomingbias.com/2017/02/when-do-opinions-converge.html
Two posts I think about commonly are A Tale of Two Tradeoffs and This Is The Dream Time.
Others I see on the top voted list that I remember finding valuable include Politics Isn't About Policy, Stories Are Like Religion, Inequality Talk Is About Grabbing, What We Should Study, and Beware Star Academia.
But there are literally 1000+ posts, and I'd like to (as I think I've mention to you ricraz) organise a subset of them into a more readable ordering sometime.
↑ comment by Raemon · 2019-07-02T22:58:46.465Z · LW(p) · GW(p)
I hadn't read "Beware Star Academia" before and it was quite an interesting concept.
This perhaps points a bit towards separate questions of "what are the best intro to Hanson posts" and "what are the best Hanson posts you might have missed if you only read the highlights?"
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