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am also an expert in the psychology of bias.

Dolly Chugh • The Person You Mean to Be: How Good People Fight Bias

any organization, public or private, that keeps track of information involving the behavior of individuals or households should generally make that data accessible to them.

Cass R. Sunstein • Nudge: The Final Edition

modern-day eugenics enrolls each of us in its blood-soaked imagination—asking us to shoulder social problems, inviting us to purchase an illusion of safety, making any demand for robust public investment in the goods, services, and infrastructure required for everyone to live well appear unimaginable.

Ruha Benjamin • Imagination: A Manifesto (A Norton Short)

decide whom to accept as experts.

Gary Gutting • What Philosophy Can Do

Hollis Robbins: Most people focus on the vast reserves of content now available online, but few people ask: “Is this a good teacher?”

future.a16z.com • 21 Experts on the Future of Expertise - Future

To be fair, I don’t think they can “clean up their community”, given that their preferred area of HBD research can only pretty much only have negative outcomes for society as a whole.

I mean “means of manufacturing and distributing poison gas in urban spaces” might be an area of research, but I’m going guess that anyone who spends their time deeply ... See more

TracingWoodgrains • Reliable Sources: How Wikipedia Admin David Gerard Launders His Grudges Into the Public Record

Promotion of a broader social good—the long-term payoff in lives saved—is a good enough reason to begin implementation, with outlier cases and legal intricacies to be dealt with in due

Kai-Fu Lee • AI Superpowers: China, Silicon Valley, and the New World Order

How can we make sense of these gradations of moral responsibility when brains and their background influences are in every case, and to exactly the same degree, the real cause of a woman’s death?

Sam Harris • Free Will

asymmetric paternalism.