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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I still think that's a best account.
Last couple of years, I've been focused on culture and how we seem to have broken humanity's superpower, and that's going to be held to pay over the coming centuries for that.
And that's what I've been focused on the last few years.
But, you know, when you're trying to understand the world, you're looking for ways, things that we misunderstand, deep questions, etc.
And as an intellectual, those are more celebrated.
Changing the world, however, doesn't necessarily require deep insights.
It requires maybe clever or unseen insights.
And that's what I think prediction markets here or decision markets are.
They just have a potential to remake the world.
I can be proud of having that insight, but it's not that deep.
It's not sort of uncovering stuff.
It's just noticing something that people didn't notice.
Right, so the message there is that I've been a futurist for a long time, and many people say that it's just really impossible to see the future.
That there's just too many complexities that you couldn't really ever figure anything out much about the future.
Now, I learned otherwise a long time ago because I was part of the group that invented the World Wide Web before there was a web.
And, you know, right after the web appeared, many people said nobody could have seen that coming.
And I said, but we did.
We saw it coming and we were trying to make it.
And people kept saying after that, see, here's an example of something no one could have seen coming.
People just have this sense that, you know, there's just stuff no one could possibly see coming.
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