Robin Hanson - The Long View
Aug 31, 2020•1 hr 40 min
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Episode description
Robin Hanson is a professor of economics at George Mason University. He is the author of The Elephant in the Brain and The Age of Em.
Robin's Twitter: https://twitter.com/robinhanson
Robin's blog: https://www.overcomingbias.com/
Robin's website: http://mason.gmu.edu/~rhanson/home.html
My blog: https://dwarkeshpatel.com/
My Twitter: https://twitter.com/dwarkesh_sp
00:05 The long view
15:07 Subconscious vs conscious intelligence
20:28 Meditators
26:50 Signaling, norms, and motives
36:50 Conversation
42:54 2020 election nominees
49:25 Nerds in startups and social science
54:50 Academia and Robin
58:20 Dominance explains paternalism
1:09:32 Remote work
1:21:26 Advice for 20 yr old
1:28:05 Idea futures
1:32:13 Reforming institutions
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