Is it supposed to imply that anybody who doesn't agree ... has simply done a poor job in overcoming their biases? No. "Bias" is a term of art among statistici

Is it supposed to imply that anybody who doesn't agree ... has simply done a poor job in overcoming their biases? No. "Bias" is a term of art among statisticians and social scientists who study human decision-making. It's my understanding that Overcomingbias started out as a collaboration between Robin Hanson ("futurist" economist at George Mason) and Eliezer Yudkowsky (the just-plain futurist who wrote the quantum sequence at OB). Eliezer's got a pretty good introductory paper, which deserves to be read strictly on the merits of its opening paragraph: http://www.singinst.org/Biases.pdf http://www.singinst.org/Biases.pdf