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We'll take the owner of a new age business as our model. He ran a crystal, candle and incense shop for a decade, but had a hankering to run his own… —special personality cult. He tried grandstanding over a men's group for about the same time, but decided he needed more him than them. So, he sells the shop and…

I read Overcoming Bias by Robin Hanson quite often because of that word ‘bias’ in the title. I like to keep up-to-date like a potato. I find choices very interesting as a topic to discuss, because of bias, regardless of being overcome or indulged. Power corrupts by indulging our biases: 'use your anger Luke'. So overcoming in the title is…