Motives and Institutions with Robin Hanson
Other Life
English - August 31, 2018 09:59 - 1 hour - 249 MB - ★★★★ - 170 ratingsPhilosophy Society & Culture Science Social Sciences ideology media philosophy politics religion technology Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Robin 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 recently published book, co-authored with Kevin Simler, is called The Elephant in the Brain: Hidden Motives in Everyday Life.
In this podcast, we talked about the new book; his larger motivation behind the book; which minds Robin would like to change; the internet; Robin's strategic insights on how to be an intellectual, especially for young-ish academic types such as myself; the near future; Robin's ideas about "futarchy"; Robin's book The Age of Em, the profit motive and the space of institutions beyond the profit motive; and a few other things.
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