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Robin Hanson, PhD: Healthcare Signaling, the Conspicuous Caring Hypothesis, and Prediction Markets in Medicine

The External Medicine Podcast

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The Elephant in the Rain

"Self deception is a big thread running through the elephant in the brain," he says. "What's actually going on according to you is that this is a long evolutionary signal developed over a long period of time" People are copying what other people around them do and doing what they feel emotionally inclined to do, she adds.

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