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Robin Hanson
Personal blog · hanson.gmu.edueconomicsphilosophyscience
Robin Hanson's personal blog at hanson.gmu.edu covers economics, philosophy and science. Since 2007, 46 different Hacker News readers have linked it 76 times, most often “Futarchy: Vote Values, But Bet Beliefs”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Most-linked posts?
- Futarchy: Vote Values, But Bet Beliefs10 people · 10 mentions · first linked 2011-07-19
- The Great Filter (1998)6 people · 8 mentions · first linked 2009-05-07
- If Uploads Come First3 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2010-05-26
- /CutMed.htm3 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2008-05-28
- /futarchy.pdf3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2009-03-08
- /showcare.pdf3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2008-06-22
- Buy Health, Not Health Care3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2009-09-12
- What it takes to get explosive economic growth2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2009-09-12
- Dreams of Autarky (or What's wrong with the singularity)2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2009-09-12
- Are disagreements honest?2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2007-05-08
What Hacker News says?
You should check out Robin Hanson's idea of 'futarchy' here: http://hanson.gmu.edu/futarchy.pdf
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on “Frighteningly Ambitious Startup Ideas”Submitted Wild Ideas as a story · 145 points
HN discussionTruthcoin satisfies 8 of the 22 requests: https://github.com/psztorc/Truthcoin my implementation: https://github.com/zack-bitcoin/Truthcoin-POW Science/Drug development: truthcoin allows for a new method of funding public goods that is far more impact per dollar than taxes. Government: http://hanson.gmu.edu/futarchy.html One million jobs: Successful traders can do it as a job. Every job that involves nothing more th…
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on “New Requests for Startups”Submitted Futarchy: Vote Values, But Bet Beliefs as a story · 67 points
HN discussion> It just means those welders will need to move on to more gainful employment. Easier said than done. Not everyone can be a programmer, and robots can easily build other robots. There will be some room left for human work, but there won't be enough to cover 300 million people. The social danger I see is an incredibly high portion of the work force out of work and out of money (with no government support structure),…
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on “Creator of "Dirty Jobs" Mike Rowe testifies to Congress”Submitted The Myth Of Creativity as a story · 57 points
HN discussion> These guys just lost several million dollars via their illicit drug-trading website. They don't need a pat on the back from zedshaw. I'd agree if he limited his mockery to those people, but his comments are full of broad generalizations and target also honest people with ideas different than zed's. I don't even say I agree with those ideas, though I find the concept of crowdsourcing law worth serious exploring ins…
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on “Silk Road 2 Hacked, All Bitcoins Stolen”Submitted The Economics of Science Fiction as a story · 56 points
HN discussionIt seems to me that all professional experts are subject to groupthink. However, could anonymous lay forecasters still make such excellent predictions without those groups in place? Anyway, I think all this argues in favor of Robin Hanson's concept of "Futarchy": http://hanson.gmu.edu/futarchy.html
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on “A group of 3,000 citizens is making better forecasts than CIA analysts”Submitted The Economics of Science Fiction as a story · 34 points
HN discussionPlease read `Burning the Cosmic Commons: Evolutionary Strategies for Interstellar Colonization' ( http://hanson.gmu.edu/filluniv.pdf ) from the wonderful collection `The Economics of Science Fiction' ( http://hanson.gmu.edu/econofsf.html ). The paper provides an explanation for us not having seen those probes that still allows other civilizations to exist. From the abstract: "Attempts to model interstellar colonizat…
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on “The Size of the Human Radio-Broadcast Bubble in the Milky Way Galaxy”Submitted Economic Growth Given Machine Intelligence [pdf, 1998] as a story · 23 points
HN discussionThe hypothetical futarchy is designed to improve this issue. http://hanson.gmu.edu/futarchy.html
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on “Georgia dealers want Tesla store shuttered for selling too many Teslas”Submitted The Great Filter (1998) as a story · 23 points
HN discussionIt's a big idea of Overcoming Bias'[1] Robin Hanson[2] along with a proposed governing method based on it called the futarchy[3]. [1] http://www.overcomingbias.com/tag/prediction-markets (easily one of top 5 blogs on the Internet) [2] http://hanson.gmu.edu/ideafutures.html [3] http://hanson.gmu.edu/futarchy.html
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on “Prediction Markets”Submitted SciCast Annual Report 2015: Prediction markets for aggregating expertise [pdf] as a story · 9 points
HN discussionSee http://hanson.gmu.edu/uploads.html for a more detailed examination.
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on “Human Brain Project: $1.61 billion to achieve human brain emulation by 2024”Submitted Comments on Vernor Vinge's Singularity as a story · 6 points
HN discussionWell, there's no limit to how much healthcare you can use, though. Hanson[1] suggests Americans already buy too much healthcare, and in the US, healthcare still costs most people something through copays, etc. So, I think it's quite arguable that giving people free healthcare can create bad incentives, if not limited some other way. I also am not sure it makes sense to lump together healthcare (which includes a lot…
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on “Life as a Service”Submitted Critiquing the Doomsday Argument as a story · 5 points
HN discussionCompared to them we might all be very poor and there is no way for anyone to become rich. Not sure about that. See this paper by Robin Hanson: http://hanson.gmu.edu/IEEESpectrum-6-08.pdf
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on “If you want to be rich, first stop being so frightened (2006)”Submitted The Great Filter – Are We Almost Past It? as a story · 3 points
HN discussionI'd put money on it: The potential customer base for a prediction market would have a huge overlap with bitcoin miners. They're valuable for research and possibly even policy[1], but seem to be on shaky legal ground in most places. [1] http://hanson.gmu.edu/futarchy.html
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on “Show HN: A Bitcoin casino with 23 games.”Submitted If Uploads Come First as a story · 3 points
HN discussion> I'm very worried that there is a Great Filter[1], and that it is some sort of abuse/misuse/weaponization of biotech at, or just beyond, our current level of technology. So you are very worried, that the Great Filter is in the somewhat near future of humankind. But in the link you gave [1], the author personally thinks [2] that the Great Filter is probably in our past, in the evolution of higher life forms and inte…
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on “An Astrobiologist Asks a Sci-fi Novelist How to Survive the Anthropocene”Submitted Dreams of Autarky (or What's wrong with the singularity) as a story · 3 points
HN discussion> [KSR on the Fermi Paradox] My feeling is, the universe is too big, and life too planet-specific for intelligent life forms to communicate with each other, except for by accident and very rarely. What does the possible variation in life forms have to do with the nature of communications mediums or techniques? Encoding might be different but the mediums used will depend on level of technological advancement and not…
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on “An Astrobiologist Asks a Sci-fi Novelist How to Survive the Anthropocene”Submitted When Do Extraordinary Claims Give Extraordinary Evidence? [pdf] as a story · 2 points
HN discussionIt's... rather odd to redefine a term in use so that it's very different from what everybody else in the discussion talking about. Also, exponential economic growth has been with us since the rise of homo sapiens , but what we saw 200 years ago was a drastic shortening of the doubling period. You can also look at the invention of agriculture as another increase in the rate of doubling, and talk about how ~human leve…
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on “Paul Allen: The Singularity Isn't Near (2011)”Submitted Futarchy: Vote Values, But Bet Beliefs as a story · 2 points
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