Robin Hanson
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Visiting Death
www.overcomingbias.com Visiting DeathI haven’t posted as much lately as it is summer, and I’ve been doing a lot of family trips. Including an Alaskan cruise the last two weeks. Such periods are supposed to be happy times, worth their extra cost in part due to our anticipating and remembering them fondly. But while such trips are indeed...
Robin explains that vacations are similar to death because you temporarily give up large parts your routines and habits that make you who you are.
Also, on his vacation the average age of the other vacationers was very old.
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Status Leadership
www.overcomingbias.com Status LeadershipHaving a romantic partner is useful in many ways. You won’t be as lonely, you can ask them for advice, you can do activities together, and you can share transport and even a household with them. But if you look carefully, you will notice that many people don’t choose such partners mainly for their p...
When leaders are selected for status rather than management skills, accountability is counter-productive.
And status may be an important functional component to leadership, because subordinates can follow high status individuals out of admiration instead of feeling dominated.
- www.overcomingbias.com Four Cases for Panspermia
Star formation peaked around 4Gyr after the Big Bang, Earth formed around 5.5Gyr later, and Earth is now 4.5Gyr old. The usual theory is that life arose within Earth’s first 0.4Gyr, but another possibility is that life first arose on a planet Eden around a star that formed near that 4Gyr peak. A roc...
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We See The Sacred From Afar, To See It The Same
Robin has recently gotten his thoughts about the sacred published in a journal.
