George Mason's Robin Hanson is one of the most prolific, earth-shaking thinkers I can think of. (The UK Observer commented on him: "Flicking through Robin's thoughts ... you start to feel the ground shifting beneath you.") A very concise primer is this 70 minute interview from Guatemala. It is by and large covers everything Hanson covers: transhumanism, roboters, future of humanity, health economics, prediction markets, rationality of disagreement. Check it out. No, wait: CHECK IT OUT. Also check out OvercomingBias, where he is one of the bloggers. EconTalk did an interview with him as well.
Here are a few of my favorite readings:
- Catastrophe, Social Collapse, and Human Extinction (PDF)
- Shall We Vote on Values, But Bet on Beliefs? (PDF) - I've never made so many positive as well as negative remarks at the margins of the printout.
- Cut Medicine in Half
- Fourteen Wild Ideas - Five Of Which Are True!
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
1 comment:
Wow - thanks for the praise!
Post a Comment