In this audio interview at Pale Blue Dot, we discuss the title topic of this blog, how to overcome bias. I’m less optimistic about personal checklists of biases to avoid, and more optimistic about track records and other ways to change your incentives. Unfortunately, we talked over the phone, so my voice sound is low quality. But if you can get past that, the topics are interesting.
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Science Saturday: The Economics of Artificial Intelligence
KARL SMITHUNC School of Government, Modeled Behavior ROBIN HANSON George Mason University, Overcoming Bias
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WTF - Todd Hanson
While in Brooklyn, Marc sat down with Todd Hanson, one of the original writers for The Onion, who is responsible for some of the smartest, funniest satire of the past two decades. But something went unspoken during that conversation, which prompted a second discussion several months later about a major event in Todd’s life.
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Hanson on the Technological Singularity
http://www.econtalk.org/archives/2011/01/hanson_on_the_t.html
Robin Hanson of GMU talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the idea of a technological singularity—a sudden, large increase in the rate of growth due to technological change. Hanson argues that it is plausible that a change in technology could lead to world output doubling every two weeks rather than every 15 years, as it does currently. Hanson suggests a likely route to such a change is to port the human brain into a computer-based emulation. Such a breakthrough in artificial intelligence would lead to an extraordinary increase in productivity creating enormous wealth and radically changing the returns to capital and labor. The conversation looks at the feasibility of the process and the intuition behind the conclusions. Hanson argues for the virtues of such a world.