Robin Hanson is an associate professor of economics at George Mason University, and a research associate at the Future of Humanity Institute of Oxford University. He is known for his work on idea futures and markets, and he was involved in the creation of the Foresight Institute's Foresight Exchange and DARPA's Future MAP project. He invented market scoring rules like LMSR (Logarithmic Market Scoring Rule) used by prediction markets such as Consensus Point (where Hanson is Chief Scientist), and has conducted research on signalling.

Robin has also written 4 books:

- The Elephant in the Brain

- The Age of Em

- The Hanson-Yudkowsky AI-Foom Debate

- Doctor Tandy's First Guide to Life Extension and Transhumanity

Join us as we discuss:

- Our hidden motives that we are not aware of

- What would happen if we upload our brains onto a computer

- What the future of Artificial Intelligence looks like

- What our geopolitical landscape looks like & More!

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Robin's Twitter: https://twitter.com/robinhanson/

Robin's Website: https://mason.gmu.edu/~rhanson/home.html.