

Robin Hanson: How Global Elites Manufactured Stagnation and How We Escape
May 2, 2022
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Introduction
00:00 • 2min
Progress Studies - What Is Getting in the Way of Economic Progress?
02:28 • 3min
The Delusion Class Is Not a Fake Elite
05:14 • 2min
Prediction Markets and Political Economy in General
07:39 • 2min
What Are Your Most Interesting Twitter Poles and What Do They Tell Us?
09:48 • 2min
How Do People Make Decisions?
11:30 • 2min
What Are People Doing and Why?
13:34 • 2min
Is There a Difference Between Theory and Data?
15:56 • 3min
Decision Analysis - The Important Place to Do It
18:53 • 3min
Is Machine Learning a Science or a Technology?
21:57 • 2min
How Can You Get People to Help You?
24:07 • 3min
How to Predict the Results of Sports Betting
27:36 • 2min
What Are the Uses of These Betting Markets?
29:31 • 2min
What Happens if Someone Attempts to Manipulate the Market?
31:29 • 5min
Adding Manipulators Makes the Prices More Accurate, Right?
36:30 • 2min
How to Make Call Off Trades in a Conditional Prediction Market
38:33 • 2min
Choosing the Best Option in the Market
40:56 • 5min
Speculators Aren't Sure of Which Option They'll Pick
45:52 • 3min
Prediction Markets
48:23 • 2min
Bata Testing - What Are the Miscellaneous Events?
50:38 • 4min
Is There a Moral Norte in Betting Markets?
54:40 • 3min
Is It Easier to Go to Vegas Than to Invest in a Private Company?
58:02 • 2min
Is There a Regulated Lottery?
59:54 • 2min
How Regulation Blocks Innovation?
01:01:40 • 2min
Prediction Market
01:03:27 • 5min
The Project Lead's Favorite Explanation
01:08:27 • 3min
Prediction Markets Make It Very Difficult to Have Hypocrisy
01:11:42 • 3min
The Elephant in the Brain, Hidden Motives in Everyday Life
01:14:43 • 3min
How to Understand People's Complaints
01:17:49 • 5min
The Split Brain and the Hidden Motives
01:23:15 • 4min
The Elephant in the Brain
01:27:34 • 2min
How to Engage in Conversation
01:29:25 • 4min
How Do We Change Our Institutions?
01:33:03 • 5min
What Is Change Over Time?
01:38:13 • 2min
Why Do Institutions Rot?
01:40:25 • 4min
Is There a Bozo Explosion?
01:44:08 • 6min
The Idea of Elits Is Used Almost Always Incorrectly
01:50:01 • 5min
The Atletes Are Different From the Experts
01:54:58 • 1min
Is Davos Man a Socialite?
01:56:17 • 3min
Is There a Status Class, Statusites, or Statusites?
01:58:50 • 2min
Big Shots - The Key Axis, Right?
02:00:34 • 2min
Global Hegemony and Global Bigshot Culture
02:02:27 • 2min
Do You Think the Global Mob Will Be Popular?
02:04:17 • 3min
The Global Big Shot Class
02:06:49 • 3min
What Are the Consequences of This Growing Homogeneity?
02:10:18 • 2min
The Rise and Fall of the Industrial Revolution
02:12:19 • 4min
What's the Moral Panic?
02:15:56 • 2min
How Do We Counter Incentivise More Competition?
02:18:17 • 3min
Is There a Reverse Fertility Decline?
02:21:21 • 2min
Is There a Way to Inspire and Empower Contrarions?
02:23:10 • 4min
The Most Important Argument of All - Decentralization
02:26:59 • 3min