Podcast Episodes featuring Robin Hanson
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There’s An Elephant In Your Brain with Robin Hanson
Mission Daily - April 26, 2019 19:02 - 52 minutes ★★★★★ - 218 ratingsWhy did you choose to listen to this episode? Why are you listening to it in one app versus another? Why are we asking you all these questions? Robin Hanson, our guest today, is here to shed some light on these questions and more. As the author of The Elephant in the Brain: Hidden Motives in Eve...
#038 - Robin Hanson - The Hidden Motives in Everyday Life
Modern Wisdom - November 12, 2018 07:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 1.8K ratingsRobin Hanson is associate professor of economics at George Mason University, author, and research associate at the Future of Humanity Institute of Oxford University. Our decisions may feel like our own choice, but how much do our primitive brains play a part in determining the hidden motives of o...
158: Robin Hanson Rebroadcast: The Age of Em and How Brain Emulations Will Double Economic Growth Every Month
Economic Rockstar - September 14, 2018 22:37 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 136 ratingsThis is a rebroadcast of my conversation with Professor Robin Hanson of George Mason University. Robin discusses his book the Age of Em and I decided to rebroadcast this after listening to The Joe Rogan Experience with Elon Musk. Check out the show notes page at www.economicrockstar.com/robinh...
Motives and Institutions with Robin Hanson
Other Life - August 31, 2018 09:59 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 170 ratingsRobin Hanson is an economist, futurist, and blogger at overcomingbias.com. I've been following Robin for a while now because he's a genuine intellectual: he thinks, speaks, and writes intensely and prolifically about whatever he wants, even if it seems weird to other people. His recentl...
#21 What are your hidden motives? - with Robin Hanson
Being Human - August 17, 2018 02:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsA conversation with Robin Hanson. In an interview of two halves, we explore the science of our hidden motives, or "ugly motives", that drive our day-to-day interactions. The drivers we won't admit to - even to ourselves. We also delve into the mind-blowing world Ems, or digital human emulations....
Robin Hanson on Signaling and Self-Deception (Live at Mason Econ)
Conversations with Tyler - February 28, 2018 12:54 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 2.1K ratingsIf intros aren’t about introductions, then what’s this here for? Is not including one a countersignal? Either way, you’ll enjoy this conversation — and that says a lot about you. This episode was recorded live at Mason for econ grad students. If you’re interested in learning economics with gre...
272 Unpacking the Instruments of Our Self-Deception with Kevin Simler & Robin Hanson
Going Deep with Aaron Watson - January 03, 2018 23:30 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 116 ratingsIn their new book, Elephant in the Brain, Kevin & Robin explore the selfish motives that are driving everything we do. From conversation and consumption, to medicine and religion, evolutionary psychology can explains all of the quirky behaviors we perpetuate through the perspective of self-inter...
122: Robin Hanson on The Elephant in the Brain: Hidden Motives in Everyday Life
Economic Rockstar - January 01, 2018 23:19 - 56 minutes ★★★★★ - 136 ratingsFirstly, I’d like to apologise to all listeners to the Economic Rockstar podcast for what seemingly appears to be me turning my back on the podcast and on you. I honestly never had planned for this and I had always intended to work hard and deliver great quality episodes to the best of my abilit...
The Elephant in the Brain, Hidden Motives, and Self-Deception with Robin Hanson
Economics Detective Radio - December 29, 2017 22:56 - 57 minutes ★★★★★ - 61 ratingsRobin Hanson returns to the podcast to discuss his new book, The Elephant in the Brain: Hidden Motives in Everyday Life, co-authored with Kevin Simler. As the subtitle suggests, the book looks at humans' hidden motives. Robin argues that these hidden motives are much more prevalent than our con...
Ep. 615: Robin Hanson Interview with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio
Michael Covel's Trend Following - December 15, 2017 03:00 - 59 minutes ★★★★★ - 567 ratingsMy guest today is Robin Hanson, an associate professor of economics at George Mason University and a research associate at the Future of Humanity Institute of Oxford University. He is an expert on idea futures and markets, was involved in the creation of the Foresight Institute’s Foresight Excha...
119 Robin Hanson Prepares Us for the Age of Em & Artificial Intelligence
Going Deep with Aaron Watson - July 27, 2016 05:00 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 116 ratingsRobin Hanson is a professor of economics at George Mason University and a research associate at the Future of Humanity Institute of Oxford University. He is an expert on idea futures and markets, and he was involved in the creation of the Foresight Institute’s Foresight Exchange and DARPA's Futu...
FTP030: Robin Hanson - Brain Emulation
Future Thinkers - July 05, 2016 18:30 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 258 ratingsRobin Hanson on whole brain emulation, and what the world will be like 1 year after we upload ourselves to the internet, considering economics, physics, psychology, and other scientific perspectives. Show notes: http://futurethinkers.org/robin-hanson-age-of-em/
Ep. 461: Robin Hanson Interview with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio
Michael Covel's Trend Following - June 24, 2016 02:00 - 51 minutes ★★★★★ - 567 ratingsMy guest today is Robin Hanson, 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...
The Age of Em, Whole Brain Emulation, and Humanity's Future with Robin Hanson
Economics Detective Radio - June 14, 2016 22:15 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 61 ratingsWhen I think of emulation, I think of retro gaming. My Android phone can easily emulate a Super Nintendo, a gaming console from the 1990s, and it can do that because the phone is much more powerful than the Super Nintendo and because we know exactly how a Super Nintendo works. My guest for this...
073: Robin Hanson on The Age of Em and How Brain Emulations Will Double Economic Growth Every Month
Economic Rockstar - February 18, 2016 05:30 - 59 minutes ★★★★★ - 136 ratingsRobin Hanson is associate professor of economics at George Mason University He is also a research associate at Oxford’s Future of Humanity Institute and chief scientist at Consensus Point. Robin has pioneered prediction markets, also known as information markets and idea futures, since 1988. R...
Rationally Speaking #135 - Robin Hanson on: "Most human behavior is signaling"
Rationally Speaking Podcast - May 31, 2015 17:00 - 47 minutes ★★★★★ - 464 ratingsIn this episode, economist Robin Hanson explains the signaling theory of human behavior: That our motivations for our choices, about school, shopping, medical care, and so on, evolved primarily to shape other people's perceptions of us. In the process Robin and Julia discuss what makes a good th...
Ep. 236: Robin Hanson Interview with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio
Michael Covel's Trend Following - May 08, 2014 06:01 - 50 minutes ★★★★★ - 567 ratingsMy guest today is Robin Hanson, an associate professor of economics at George Mason University and a research associate at the Future of Humanity Institute of Oxford University. The topic is outside the box economic perspectives. In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss: Predicti...
Economist, rationalist and blogger Robin Hanson
Notebook on Cities and Culture - January 28, 2010 14:33 - 56 minutes ★★★★★ - 124 ratingsColin Marshall talks to Robin Hanson, professor of economics at George Mason University, research associate at Oxford’s Future of Humanity Institute and chief scientist at Consensus Point. He’s also the thinker behind Overcoming Bias, a popular blog about issues of honesty, signaling, disagreeme...
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