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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But The Age of M is about showing that I could take a technological premise and I could just work out a lot of detailed consequences, a lot more than most people could just by sort of, you know, writing a science fiction novel or sketching a few things.
And I actually crammed it full with more details than most people want.
People say, gee, I would rather not see all those details, Robin.
Couldn't you tell some stories or do something more fun?
I was trying to, like, show you you could tell a lot of details.
You could actually take a technological premise of the future and work out a lot of detail about what would happen in order to tell the world, look, you can do a lot more futurism than you're doing.
It's possible to do futurism.
Maybe you don't want to.
Maybe you're not interested.
But look, you can.
That was my message of HMM.
I'm proud of that as a demonstration.
I do think it still has a substantial chance of actually happening.
But even if it doesn't, I think I showed that you can just analyze a future scenario in a lot more detail than you usually know.
But again, the usual social norms insist that I be uncertain about what my best contribution is because I'm supposed to be humble.
I'm supposed to let the rest of the world sing my praises or make such judgments.
And I'm happy to both accept these usual norms, but also poke at them by pointing them out.
I'm Bob Edwards, and this is NPR's Morning Edition.
If you think you know who the next president of the United States will be, there's a place in Iowa where you can back up your convictions with a buck or two.
And a lot of times creative frictions happen from people with different perspectives.
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