Dwarkesh Podcast

Robin Hanson - The Long View

Aug 31, 2020

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The Key Idea of Norms

02:12

Are You a Nerd or a Social Scientist?

02:19

Is There a Way to Find Two in the Problem?

01:54

Introduction

5min

Do You Have a Nation State?

4min

Aren't Organizations Like Agents Planning for the Long Term?

3min

What Do You Care About the Long Term?

2min

The Elephant in the Brain

5min

Is There a Correlation Between the President and the Press Secretary?

2min

Are You More Self Conscious?

1min

The Pecking Order of Meditation

2min

The Elephant in the Brain - I Don't Meditate

2min

10.

Is Your Rival Having a Different Motive?

2min

11.

The Key Idea of Norms

2min

12.

Shouldn't We Be Signaling Less?

3min

13.

Loyalty Signals Matter More Than Ability Signaling

3min

14.

Are We Signaling More Now Than Ever Because of Social Media?

5min

15.

Why Shouldn't We Talk More Than Listen?

2min

16.

How to Choose a Compromise Position

2min

17.

Are You Saying That Being Articulate Couldn't Always Harm You as a Democrat?

3min

18.

Leadership, Loyalty Signaling and Ability Signaling

2min

19.

Are You a Contrarian?

3min

20.

Are You a Nerd or a Social Scientist?

2min

21.

How Academics Are Trying to Be Innovative and Useful?

2min

22.

Dominans Explained's Maternalism

3min

23.

Dominance Is Mission Is Functional

5min

24.

How Much Domination of Children Is Helpful?

4min

25.

Predicting the Future

4min

26.

Remote Work Allows Planet-Wide Specialization

3min

27.

How Remote Work Will Decrease Innovation and Productivity

4min

28.

Do You Have Any Advice for 20 Year Olds?

3min

29.

What Are the Most Important Topics?

3min

30.

Is There a Way to Find Two in the Problem?

2min

31.

The Profit Maximization of Firms

3min

32.

The Key to Innovation Is Just That Sometimes Things Change

4min

33.

Is There Too Much Innovation?

2min

34.

What's Your Favorite Political System?

3min

Robin Hanson is a professor of economics at George Mason University. He is the author of The Elephant in the Brain and The Age of Em.

Robin's Twitter: https://twitter.com/robinhanson

Robin's blog: https://www.overcomingbias.com/

Robin's website: http://mason.gmu.edu/~rhanson/home.html

My blog: https://dwarkeshpatel.com/

My Twitter: https://twitter.com/dwarkesh_sp

00:05 The long view

15:07 Subconscious vs conscious intelligence

20:28 Meditators

26:50 Signaling, norms, and motives

36:50 Conversation

42:54 2020 election nominees

49:25 Nerds in startups and social science

54:50 Academia and Robin

58:20 Dominance explains paternalism

1:09:32 Remote work

1:21:26 Advice for 20 yr old

1:28:05 Idea futures

1:32:13 Reforming institutions

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Robin Hanson - The Long View

The Key Idea of Norms

Are You a Nerd or a Social Scientist?

Is There a Way to Find Two in the Problem?

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