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May 26 2008. Robin Hanson of George Mason University talks about the phenomenon of signalling--the ways people spend resources to convey information about ourselves to others. It begins with Hanson revisiting his theory from an earlier podcast that we spend too much on medicine because we need to signal our concern for friends and family.
Jan 2, 2018 · "Simler and Hanson uncover the hidden and darker forces that shape much of what we say and do." --William MacAskill, Professor of Philosophy, Oxford University; author of Doing Good Better "There are only a few people alive today worth listening to. Robin Hanson is one of them." --Ralph Merkle, co- inventor of public key cryptography
Robin Hanson is associate professor of economics at George Mason University, and research associate at the Future of Humanity Institute of Oxford University. He has a doctorate in social science from California Institute of Technology , master's degrees in physics and philosophy from the University of Chicago , and nine years experience as a ...
Feb 28, 2018 · ROBIN HANSON: As you know, in my new book, The Elephant in the Brain: Hidden Motives in Everyday Life, we have a whole chapter on conversation, which I expect you have perused. The claim we make in there is that, although we like to talk about conversation as if it was about imparting information and finding out useful things, more plausibly it ...
Robin 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 has a PhD in social science from Caltech, master's in physics and philosophy from U. Chicago, and worked for nine years in artificial intelligence as a research programmer at Lockheed and NASA.
Childhood. Born 1959 in St. Charles, Ill., eldest of three children, all boys, of Don Hanson, preacher and programmer, and Bonnie Hanson, writer and administrator. Moved to San Diego California, attended Cubberly Elementary School '66-71, Taft Junior High School '71-74, Kearny High School '74-75, moved to Tustin California, attended Tustin High ...
