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Episode 12: Robin Dale Hanson, Associate professor of economics at George Mason University and a research associate at the Future of Humanity Institute of Oxford University
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Robin Dale 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 is the Co-author of the book The Elephant in the Brain, which looks at the mental blind spots of society and of individuals. His book The Age of Em covers his views on brain emulation and its eventual impact on society.