Tag: Gwern
2 posts tagged "Gwern".
Pseudonymous American writer and independent researcher (Gwern Branwen) whose website gwern.net hosts long-running, deeply sourced essays on AI, statistics, the replication crisis, self-experimentation, and decision-making. Working outside academia, he is known for radical transparency, long-term thinking, and meticulous knowledge management — treating essays as living documents updated over years. His empirical, rationality-minded approach places him in the orbit of writers like Scott Alexander and the broader LessWrong community.
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The ‘Bias’ Bias: No, Your Brain is Not Made of Swiss Cheese
Most apparent biases are, in fact, perfectly good heuristics, and people are far more rational than we have been led to believe.
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The Self-Experimentation Guide
A self-experiment that doesn't generate obvious results, like taking tiny, sub-threshold doses of LSD, crosses the line into fiddling on the margin.
