Ep. 461: Robin Hanson Interview with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio

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Michael Covel

Business, Investing

4.6 • 732 Ratings

🗓️ 24 June 2016

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

My 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 Foresight Exchange and DARPA's FutureMAP 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.

The topic is his book The Age of Em: Work, Love and Life when Robots Rule the Earth.

In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss:

Singularity
Robots taking over
Artificial intelligence
Slavery
Reversible computing
Virtual reality
Future of politics
Democracy in the future

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0:00.0	A big thank you to all of my listeners.
0:03.9	And if you would like to support this transmission even more and boost your trading account,
0:10.5	go to trendfollowing.com slash now.
0:16.5	And without any further delay, on to today's show.
0:30.5	This is Trend Following Radio, where great thinking comes alive.
0:40.1	Nobel Prize winners, legendary traders, best-selling authors, and the pros that know what drive us irrational human beings.
0:48.8	I am your host, Michael Covel, not filtered, raw, honest. That's my passion.
0:55.5	We all love The Terminator.
1:00.2	We all talk about the red pill, the blue pill, the Matrix.
1:07.2	My guest today is Robin Hanson, Professor of Economics from my alma mater, George Mason University.
1:16.8	His new work, his new book, The Age of M, M as in Emulation. Robin is looking ahead approximately 100 years to see where things evolved to that point of singularity, that point
1:25.6	artificial intelligence. What will it look like?
1:29.4	What will the world be like?
1:31.2	And how, if we do look ahead to that future, how can it possibly help us today in our own time?
1:39.2	A really interesting guy, great insights, and a book that will make you think. I hope you
1:46.9	enjoy this conversation with Robin Hanson.
1:56.0	I hope when somebody in Hollywood starts to take these ideas and compose them into and put them on the silver screen, I hope you get paid for it.
2:04.6	Or here's the question.
2:06.6	Or did this kind of, I don't know if I want to call it silly, but this interesting movie with Johnny Depp.
2:11.6	Did you see this thing? Transcendence?
2:13.6	I did. I did see it.
2:14.6	Tell me, your thought process.
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