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.

The topic is outside the box economic perspectives.

In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss:

Prediction markets
Vernon Smith and coming up with the "why" for booms and busts
Dealing with a complex world based on our limited abilities
Steering towards humanity's future
Hanson's physics background, and how he came to where prediction markets became a passion
How prediction markets can make us pay more attention to the truth
Hayek and Mises, and some of their thinking early on
What taboos and idealogical beliefs might stop one from making optimal decisions
If people have employed particular trading strategies to the prediction markets
Stop losses as information and as risk preference
Setting up a market to bet on geopolitical events in the Middle East, and the controversy based around that
Why DC politicians often cannot handle the research Hanson does
Why Hanson has elected to have his head cryonically preserved after medical death based on a cost-benefit analysis

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