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[nameandnature]

Colin Marshall talks to economist, blogger and rationalist Robin Hanson

"Robin Hanson is a professor of economics at George Mason University, research associate at Oxford’s Future of Humanity Institute and chief scientist at Consensus Point. He’s also the thinker behind Overcoming Bias, a popular blog about issues of honesty, signaling, disagreement, forecasting and the far future, around which a large rationality-centric community has developed on the internet."
(tags: rationality signalling robin-hanson overcoming-bias economics)

Evangelicals warn: women bishops will 'put men off ordination' - Times Online

"They have girl cooties," a spokesman for the Doctrinal Rectitude Trust said today.
(tags: evangelicalism christianity religion women ordination reformed)

Brainboxes, booze and sex – what a fascinating combination - Telegraph

Ah, Newnham. (Though Celia Warden rightly says that the papers are only interested because of "posh girls shagging" angle).
(tags: sex newnham cambridge-university funny)

Comments

[simont]

I'm deeply disappointed that "girl cooties" turned out to be a paraphrase.

[scribb1e.livejournal.com]

Me too :-)

[gareth-rees.livejournal.com]

That Telegraph piece is a mind-bending piece of conscious hypocrisy. "The only reason newspapers are reporting on this is because of sexism and prurience ... oh look, I'm reporting it in a newspaper too, perhaps if I acknowledge the sexism and prurience up front readers will give me a free pass when I indulge in them later on." (But then, a lot of Telegraph journalism is like this: too right-wing to avoid bigotry, but too intelligent not to be uncomfortable about it.)

[andrewducker]

Yes, this is why I find the Telegraph more readable than the Times - it is at least _intelligent_ bigotry, which means that so long as I filter out the bigotry I can find the writing interesting.

[gareth-rees.livejournal.com]

Overcoming Bias, a popular blog about ...

... the vital need to prevent super-powerful artificial intelligences from taking over the world and destroying humanity.

[nameandnature]

I thought that was Less Wrong.

[gareth-rees.livejournal.com]

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