From the New World

Robin Hanson: Status and Our Forager Future

Oct 31, 2022

02:27:53

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The Global Mob Is Not Just a Political Machine

02:13

The Key Idea of Constructed Level Theory

05:18

The Auto-Dedact

03:00

Introduction

2min

Dating Advice - I'm Pro Dating?

2min

Dating Scripts

2min

Is There Really a Real Authenticity?

2min

Is There a Difference Between Originality and Originality?

3min

The Auto-Dedact

3min

Is There Just a Learning Curve When You're Not Talking to Someone Other Than You?

2min

I'm Pretty Skeptical About Solitary Detention, Right?

2min

I'm a Weird, but for Different Reasons

3min

10.

Auto Diet X Is the Most Productive Style, Right?

2min

11.

Is There a Default Analytical Hypothesis?

2min

12.

Drug Consumption and Deaths of Disdain

2min

13.

Do You Have Any Guesses on the Deaths of Disdain?

4min

14.

Forager Values Aren't Quite Like Foragers

4min

15.

Science Fiction Is Not the Kind of Fiction I Read

2min

16.

Star Trek - A Forager Future?

2min

17.

World Mob - The World Government You Didn't Look For

3min

18.

The World Mob Is Still Limiting Growth

3min

19.

The World Mob and Forager Values

2min

20.

What Is a World Mob?

3min

21.

Is There a Mechanism of Enforcement?

4min

22.

The Global Mob Is Not Just a Political Machine

2min

23.

Is Blackmail Inducing a Global Mob or a Blackmail Like?

3min

24.

Is That What You're Trying to Do?

2min

25.

The Blackmail Bureaucracies Are Trying to Prevent That, Right?

4min

26.

Will the Global Mob Survive?

3min

27.

The Best Way to Rebel Against the World Is Not to Rebel, Right?

2min

28.

Is the Culture Downstream of Politics?

2min

29.

How to Find Temporary Leverage

3min

30.

Are We in the Middle of a Religious Revival?

2min

31.

Is There Anything That's Negligent and Important?

2min

32.

What Are the Correlations of the Sacred?

3min

33.

The Key Idea of Constructed Level Theory

5min

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How Does This Relate to Collective Stubbornity?

2min

35.

Organ Markets - Is That a Good Idea?

2min

36.

The Tax Career Agent

4min

37.

Is There a Potential Conflict?

2min

38.

Are You Using Social Skills to Unite a Group of People?

2min

39.

Is Elon Musk Just a Sloppy Thinker?

3min

40.

Academic Standards Aren't the Right Standards to Apply Outside of Academics

2min

41.

Is Peer Review the Right Standard for Academic Research?

2min

42.

The Importance of Peer Review in Academic Publishing

3min

43.

Is There a Trend in the Quality of Academics?

2min

44.

The Problem Isn't the Quality, You Know?

2min

45.

Is Academic Different Than Everything Else?

5min

46.

The Importance of Being Impressive

2min

47.

The Cold War Era Boom

2min

48.

Are We Scared of Change?

2min

49.

The Prestige Value of Fielding a Vaccine Soon

2min

50.

Is There a Way to Get It Done Before the Election?

2min

51.

I'm Not Opposing, but I Still Think We Should Stop the Enforcement Mechanism

6min

52.

Are We Killing Disparate Impact Laws?

2min

53.

The Time Neutral Case Is Not That Strong, Right?

4min

54.

Is There a Fundamental Principles Case for This?

2min

55.

The Lever of Change in Social Science

2min

56.

I'm Happy to Let People Discriminate Effectively Based on Intelligence

2min

57.

Is There Too Much Chaos?

3min

Robin Hanson is a leading research of prediction markets, a professor of economics at George Mason University, author of the Elephant in the Brain and the Age of Em, and the writer of the blog Overcoming Bias.0:00 Authenticity9:30 Autodidacts22:30 Deaths of Despair39:20 World Mob1:17:00 The Sacred1:28:30 Tax Career Agents1:39:00 Elon Musk1:42:00 Academic Standards1:51:00 Academia and IQ tests2:25:00 Order and Chaos

Robin on Twitter:

https://twitter.com/robinhanson

Round 1:

Robin Hanson and Agnes Callard on Autodidacts:

https://mindsalmostmeeting.com/episodes/autodidact

Robin Hanson Debates Curtis Yarvin:

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