Robin Hanson

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Robin Hanson
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Robin Dale Hanson

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OccupationTemplate:Pluralize from textEconomist
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OrganizationTemplate:Pluralize from textGeorge Mason University
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Known forFutureMAP, LMSR, Foresight Institute
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Notable workThe Elephant in the Brain
The Age of Em
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Robin Dale Hanson (born August 28, 1959[1]) is an American economist and author. He is associate professor of economics at George Mason University[2] and a former research associate at the Future of Humanity Institute of Oxford University.[3] Hanson 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 FutureMAP project. He invented market scoring rules like LMSR (Logarithmic Market Scoring Rule)[4] used by prediction markets such as Consensus Point (where Hanson was Chief Scientist[5]), and has conducted research on signalling. He also proposed the Great Filter hypothesis.

Background

Hanson received a BS in physics from the University of California, Irvine in 1981, an MS in physics and an MA in Conceptual Foundations of Science from the University of Chicago in 1984, and a PhD in social science from Caltech in 1997 for his thesis titled Four puzzles in information and politics: Product bans, informed voters, social insurance, and persistent disagreement.[6] Before getting his PhD he researched artificial intelligence, Bayesian statistics and hypertext publishing at Lockheed, NASA, and elsewhere. In addition, he started the first internal corporate prediction market at Xanadu in 1990.[7]

He is married to Peggy Jackson, a hospice social worker,[8] and has two children.[9] He is the son of a Southern Baptist preacher.[10] Hanson has elected to have his brain cryonically preserved in the event of medical death.[8] He was involved early on in the creation of the Rationalist community through online weblogs.[11]

Views

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Robin Hanson discussing alternative economic-legal systems at the 2019 Institute of Cryptoanarchy Conference

Prediction markets

Robin Hanson is credited with originating the concept of the Policy Analysis Market (PAM),[9] a DARPA project to implement a market for betting on future developments in the Middle East. Hanson has expressed great disappointment in DARPA's cancellation of its related FutureMAP project, and he attributes this to the controversy surrounding the related Total Information Awareness program.[citation needed] He also created and supports a proposed system of government called futarchy, in which policies would be determined by prediction markets.[8]

Nate Silver has described Hanson's view on prediction markets, saying "[Hanson's] argument for these is pretty simple: They ensure that we have a financial stake in being accurate when we make forecasts, rather than just trying to look good to our peers.[12]

Sex

In a controversial 2018 blog post on the incel movement, Hanson appeared to agree with the incel movement's likening of the distribution of job opportunities to "access to sex". He wrote that he found it puzzling that similar concern had not been shown for incels as for low-income individuals. Some journalists, such as Alexandra Scaggs in the Financial Times, criticized Hanson for discussing sex as if it was a commodity.[13]

Hanson has been criticized for his writings relating to sexual relationships and women. "If you've ever heard of George Mason University economist Robin Hanson, there's a good chance it was because he wrote something creepy", Slate columnist Jordan Weissman wrote in 2018.[14] In an article on bias against women in economics, Bloomberg columnist Noah Smith cited a blog post by Hanson comparing cuckoldry to "gentle silent rape",[15] lamenting that there was no retraction and no outcry from fellow economists.[16] In The New Yorker, Jia Tolentino described Hanson's blog post as a "flippantly dehumanizing thought experiment".[17]

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Robin Hanson discussing prediction markets at the 2023 Manifest conference

Cryonics

Hanson is an advocate for cryonics and a member of the Alcor Life Extension Foundation, a cryonics organization that preserves corpses with the goal of later resurrecting them.[8]

Great Filter

Hanson coined the term Great Filter, referring to whatever prevents "dead matter" from becoming an expanding and observable intelligent civilization, as a possible resolution of the Fermi Paradox. He was motivated to seek his doctorate so that his theories would reach a wider audience.[10]

Books

Hanson has written two books. The Age of Em (2016)[18][19] concerns his views on brain emulation and its eventual impact on society.[20] The Elephant in the Brain (2018), coauthored with Kevin Simler, looks at mental blind spots of society and individuals.[21][22]

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  1. ^ Hanson, Robin (August 28, 2009). "Today I'm 50." Overcoming Bias.
  2. ^ George Mason University, Department of Economics. "Full Time Faculty." http://economics.gmu.edu/people/full_time_faculty
  3. ^ Robin Hanson: My best idea was prediction markets. Script error: No such module "webarchive".
  4. ^ Logarithmic Market Scoring Rule
  5. ^ Consensus Point. "About Us." http://www.consensuspoint.com/about/ Script error: No such module "webarchive".
  6. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Four puzzles in information and politics: Product bans, informed voters, social insurance, and persistent disagreement". Template:ProQuest. Retrieved April 13, 2014.
  7. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Hanson, Robin. "Robin Hanson's Bio". Retrieved March 6, 2011.
  8. ^ a b c d Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Howley, Kerry (July 7, 2010). "Until Cryonics Do Us Part". The New York Times. Retrieved September 9, 2010.
  9. ^ a b Andrew Orlowski, Meet the 'transhumanists' behind the Pentagon terror casino, The Register, August 5, 2003 (accessed September 17, 2012)
  10. ^ a b Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Kahn, Jeremy (September 15, 2003). "The Man Who Would Have Us Bet On Terrorism – Not to Mention Discard Democracy and Cryogenically Freeze Our Heads – May Have a Point (About The Betting, We Mean)". Fortune. p. 179. Archived from the original on January 8, 2007.
  11. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Metz, Cade (February 13, 2021). "Silicon Valley's Safe Space". The New York Times. Retrieved April 30, 2021. Robin Hanson, a professor of economics at George Mason University who helped create the blogs that spawned the Rationalist movement.
  12. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Silver, Nate (2012). The Signal and the Noise. New York, NY: The Penguin Press. pp. 201–202. ISBN 978-1594204111.
  13. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Sex redistribution' and the means of reproduction". Financial Times. May 8, 2018. Archived from the original on December 10, 2022.
  14. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Weissman, Jordan. "Is Robin Hanson America's Creepiest Economist?". Slate.
  15. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Hanson, Robin. "Gentle Silent Rape".
  16. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Smith, Noah. "Economics Is a Dismal Science for Women". Bloomberg Opinion.
  17. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."The Rage of the Incels".
  18. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Hanson, Robin (2016). The Age of Em: Work, love and life when robots rule the Earth. Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780198754626.
  19. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."The Age of Em, a book". Retrieved 8 June 2016.
  20. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Robin Hanson on "The Age of Em"". Future Thinkers. 5 July 2016.
  21. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Hanson, Robin (February 2017). "The Elephant in the Brain". Overcoming Bias.
  22. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Biography". Robin D. Hanson. George Mason University.

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