Robin Hanson
speaker
273 appearances
2 recordings
2 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 26 May
Robin Hanson’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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So yeah, and that's part of the appeal of finance and betting markets is it's a place where you get to be aggressive, you get to risk, take a chance, prove yourself, maybe lose it all.
But
People like that chance to prove themselves.
So for a long time, you know, sports has been one of the biggest areas that we allowed aggression.
that it was okay to sort of express your aggression and physically express your aggression.
And then fandom near sports also really enjoyed that aggressive, competitive element that I'm for my team, you're for your team, the hell with your team, my team's better.
You know, people liked even being fans of sports to join that sort of aggressive stance.
And that meant that sort of making sports bets was a natural thing to do.
People for a long time have wanted to prove themselves by betting on something and betting on something they're already taking an aggressive stance toward and feeling an allegiance toward and doing a fair bit of investment and thinking about.
That just all fits together.
So I don't think it's at all puzzling, given the kinds of things people have been doing near sports for a long time, that they would want to bet.
And in fact, they have bet.
So I don't know if I mentioned this last time.
If you go back a century ago in the United States, there was more money bet in the U.S.
presidential betting markets at the time than there was in the stock market at the time.
The stock market was really small.
It's grown a lot over the last century.
So, you know,
Betting goes way back.
And, you know, as you know, people a long time like to play cards, like to play dice.
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