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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People have liked to play games where they risk money as part of making those games fun.
And the fun about, say, betting on sports or something is now, you know, a game is this whole hypothetical thing that's just made up.
But at least a sports is like a bit more real.
These horses racing in a horse race, if you're betting on that, you're showing your knowledge about something that actually matters more than throwing a dice in a game.
Because you might think, why is that so disconnected from the rest of the world?
I'm going to say, look, sports is actually more connected to the world than most gambling in terms of dice or cards or things like that.
I encourage you to go for it.
So my usual move is to try to, as best as I can, avoid this opening so as that I show that I'm supporting the usual norm against bragging, right?
I'm pointing out the usual social game has me supposed to make that move here, right?
But I'm just, I guess I'll be ironic.
So...
I have this book, The Elephant in the Brain, that I'm pretty proud of here, where I tried to understand... I guess you could take away the screenshot you're showing of this other... Oh, we can see you on stream.
Okay, because I'm just seeing...
Okay, never mind.
Anyway, basically that we are just wrong about why we do lots of things.
And this was a big insight to me.
I was surprised that I was able to figure out something that basic that we didn't understand very well so far.
That we're just wrong about why we do lots of things.
A couple of years ago, I dug into the sacred, and I thought I had a good insight into what the sacred really is in a way that previous theories hadn't explained.
I did this work on gravity aliens, a follow-on to my previous great filter analysis, where I explained where aliens are in space-time.
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