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6 unusual facts about Robin Hanson


Anticipatory democracy

Other well-known advocates of the anticipatory approach include Newt Gingrich, Heidi Toffler, K. Eric Drexler, and Robin Hanson.

Doomsday argument

This response is accused of overlooking the technological threats to humanity's survival, to which earlier life was not subject, and is specifically rejected by most of the DA's academic critics (arguably excepting Robin Hanson).

Futarchy

Futarchy is a form of government proposed by economist Robin Hanson, in which elected officials define measures of national welfare and prediction markets are used to determine which policies will have the most positive effect.

Prediction market

Around 1990 at Project Xanadu, Robin Hanson used the first known corporate prediction market.

Robin Hanson

Until mid-2009, the blog Overcoming Bias was a group blog co-edited by Hanson and Eliezer Yudkowsky.

TV Tropes

Economist Robin Hanson, inspired by an analysis of Victorian literature by Kruger et.


Cato Unbound

The following is a partial list of notable people that have contributed to Cato Unbound: Peter Thiel, Tom G. Palmer, Bryan Caplan, Matthew Yglesias, Richard Thaler, John Cochrane, Robin Hanson, James C. Scott, William Easterly, Jonathan Zittrain, Lawrence Lessig, Charles Murray, and Michael Huemer.


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