[T]he orangutan effect: If you sit down with an orangutan and carefully explain to it one of your cherished ideas, you may leave behind a puzzled primate, but will yourself exit thinking more clearly.

Veganism and Vegetarianism are diets where people avoid eating animal products. (Vegans avoid all animal products, vegetarians avoid some subsets)

A concrete theory of transhuman values. How much fun is there in the universe; will we ever run out of fun; are we having fun yet; could we be having more fun. Part of the complexity of value thesis. Also forms part of the fully general answer to religious theodicy... (read more)

Blog posts

• The 80% Forecasting Solution by Robin Hanson

See also

• Planning fallacy
• Exploratory engineering
• Prediction, prediction market, possibility
• Representativeness bias, Absurdity heuristic
• Hindsight bias
• Existential risk