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	<title>Original Cin &#187; metacognition</title>
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	<description>For The World Is Strange</description>
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		<title>Weird&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 08:38:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nic "RedWord" Smith</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Kind of weird: my diet log for yesterday shows that, without intending to, I ate foods in order of descending calorie count. There are 3.6 million different ways I could have eaten the exact same stuff!
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		<title>Everthing is Amazing</title>
		<link>http://nic.dreamhost.com/2009/03/26/everthing-is-amazing/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Mar 2009 03:43:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nic "RedWord" Smith</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I saw this video on Thinking on the Margin. It reminds me of my &#8220;the world is strange&#8221; idea.

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		<title>My Mind Just Had a BSOD</title>
		<link>http://nic.dreamhost.com/2009/01/14/economic-bsod/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Jan 2009 07:36:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nic "RedWord" Smith</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economics]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Seen on The Economic Way of Thinking, the blog From ABBA to Led Zeppelin:
Based off of the James Hetfield lyricsin the song Master Of Puppets, describe why someone would continue to engage in behavior that is self-damaging, expensive, and time consuming.
My brain hurts, and it doesn&#8217;t have anything to do with the question posed.
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		<title>Seth&#8217;s Blog: Predictions</title>
		<link>http://nic.dreamhost.com/2008/12/25/seths-blog-predictions/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Dec 2008 03:18:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nic "RedWord" Smith</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Found on the blog of Seth Godin, some amazing predictions from 2002: &#8220;Predictions&#8220;
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		<title>Overcoming Bias: Hated Because It Might Work</title>
		<link>http://nic.dreamhost.com/2008/12/13/hated-because-it-might-work-pointer/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Dec 2008 21:48:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nic "RedWord" Smith</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Society]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Robin Hanson, &#8220;Hated Because It Might Work,&#8221; on the always wonderful Overcoming Bias:
Saying you want to do something weird for value or symbolic belief reasons is far less threatening than saying you want to do something weird for instrumental reasons.  Common social norms encourage acceptance of weird values and symbolic beliefs, as long as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Food for Thought on Leather:</title>
		<link>http://nic.dreamhost.com/2008/09/18/food-for-thought-leather/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Sep 2008 03:43:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nic "RedWord" Smith</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economics]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Corfam &#8211; Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia:
The 1966 Chilean issue of Reader&#8217;s Digest claimed that by 1983 there would not be enough leather from cows, demand exceeding supply by 30%.
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		<title>Overcoming Bias: Ask For Help</title>
		<link>http://nic.dreamhost.com/2008/07/12/overcoming-bias-ask-for-help/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Jul 2008 04:28:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nic "RedWord" Smith</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Robin Hanson points to an interesting case of underconfidence on my favorite blog, Overcoming Bias.
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		<title>&#8220;The world is strange. Cthulhu Mythos level strange.&#8221; on Overcoming Bias</title>
		<link>http://nic.dreamhost.com/2008/03/23/the-world-is-strange-cthulhu-mythos-level-strange-on-overcoming-bias/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Mar 2008 05:59:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nic "RedWord" Smith</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Quotomatic]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Role Playing Games]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Writing]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Eliezer Yudkowsky writes &#8220;If You Demand Magic, Magic Won&#8217;t Help&#8221; on Overcoming Bias:
Born into a world of science, they [fantasy fiction readers] did not become scientists.  What makes them think that, in a world of magic, they would act any differently?
If they don&#8217;t have the scientific attitude, that nothing is &#8220;mere&#8221; &#8211; the capacity [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Be Cynical But Optimistic.</title>
		<link>http://nic.dreamhost.com/2008/02/09/be-cynical-but-optimistic/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Feb 2008 08:34:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nic "RedWord" Smith</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economics]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[This tentative guideline to life is actually based on the title of one of the first blogs I encountered, The Skeptical Optimist.  People think that there&#8217;s a contradiction between being skeptical and being an optimist, but it&#8217;s not true. I don&#8217;t think this actually goes far enough &#8212; I think it&#8217;s a good idea [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Econ quote on a computing blog</title>
		<link>http://nic.dreamhost.com/2008/02/03/econ-quote-on-a-computing-blog/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Feb 2008 03:38:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nic "RedWord" Smith</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Computing]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8230;it&#8217;s so important to observe how users actually behave versus the way they tell you they behave. People who do this professionally are called &#8220;economists&#8221; &#8211; Jeff Atwood, &#8220;Every User Lies&#8220;, Coding Horror
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		<title>Things I&#8217;ve Learned</title>
		<link>http://nic.dreamhost.com/2008/01/30/things-ive-learned/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Jan 2008 05:10:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nic "RedWord" Smith</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Create It]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Inspired by running across my old (pen and paper) journal last night, and by this post at the Happiness Project, I decided to create a list of things I&#8217;ve learned (draft version):

Be cynically optimistic.
There is a cost to everything.
Location, location, location &#8212; the physical world and its arrangement are still important
Words are not weapons.
Talk is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What value virtue, what value vice?</title>
		<link>http://nic.dreamhost.com/2007/09/12/what-value-virtue-what-value-vice/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Sep 2007 06:32:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nic "RedWord" Smith</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was going through my bookmarks, and found this via Collision Detection, an article which has had quite an impact on my thinking on some matters:
While yielding to temptation can certainly be harmful, this article argues that overcontrol and excessive farsightedness (hyperopia) can also have negative long-term consequences. In particular, we propose that, with the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Small Note</title>
		<link>http://nic.dreamhost.com/2007/06/24/a-small-note/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Jun 2007 04:35:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nic "RedWord" Smith</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This ties in perfectly with that post a little while back:
Eighty percent of American men think they are in the top half of social skills; the majority of workers rate their job performance above average; and the majority of motorists (even those who have been involved in accidents) rate their driving as safer than average.
- [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Do women have an exceptionally accurate sense of their sex lives?</title>
		<link>http://nic.dreamhost.com/2007/06/22/do-women-have-an-exceptionally-accurate-sense-of-their-sex-lives/</link>
		<comments>http://nic.dreamhost.com/2007/06/22/do-women-have-an-exceptionally-accurate-sense-of-their-sex-lives/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Jun 2007 03:35:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nic "RedWord" Smith</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Someone left a direct-mail &#8220;subscribe now&#8221; pamphlet for Ladies&#8217; Home Journal lying around, and one of the stories mentioned in it caught my attention.
It has often been remarked that people consider themselves above average regardless of actual standing. Yet, in a normally distributed population, half the people have to be above the average, and half [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Historians and the Future</title>
		<link>http://nic.dreamhost.com/2007/03/27/historians-and-the-future/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Mar 2007 05:41:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nic "RedWord" Smith</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Back in college, I knew a person named Kyle (I think) who was absolutely crazy about history. Lies My Teacher Told Me was his favorite book. He thought that history was something everyone should know forward and backwards. I think he knew the exact year that Caesar crossed the Rubicon. When I asked him why [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Thesis, Antithesis, and How Not to Kill an Idea.</title>
		<link>http://nic.dreamhost.com/2007/03/15/thesis-antithesis-and-how-not-to-kill-an-idea/</link>
		<comments>http://nic.dreamhost.com/2007/03/15/thesis-antithesis-and-how-not-to-kill-an-idea/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Mar 2007 00:38:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nic "RedWord" Smith</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I like Splenda in my tea, but I don&#8217;t like what the company behind Spenda seems to be up to lately. Not that it&#8217;s evil, just stupid. Found via the blog of Seth Godin is a story about Spenda&#8217;s marketing buying up negative domain names related to the sweetener.
Godin sarcastically asks &#8220;Is there enough money [...]]]></description>
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