Robin Hanson @robinhanson
Let’s skip witty repartee & discuss fundamental questions. Views are mine, not GMU’s or Virginia’s. Books: https://t.co/hpZgEm5DBI, https://t.co/iFs9C3J2Ek hanson.gmu.edu Fairfax, VA Joined July 2007-
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Some say "Fame is like poison; a little makes you stronger, but too much will kill you." How many Twitter followers is too much, so you are worse off with more?
"Higher-spending [Medicare Advantage] plans tend to reduce enrollee mortality, but existing quality ratings are uncorrelated with plan mortality effects. Consumers place little weight on mortality effects when choosing plans. Good insurance plans dramatically reduce mortality."…
I made exactly this graph, with all these lines and points, as an undergrad in physics, '77-'81, at UC Irvine. Couldn't generate much interest in it.
I made exactly this graph, with all these lines and points, as an undergrad in physics, '77-'81, at UC Irvine. Couldn't generate much interest in it.
I can't recall being more disappointed by a famous book. He may at times have insights, but overall Burke comes across as a pompous blowhard. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reflectio…
Will the few songs of ours saved long after our civ collapses be this bad?
Will the few songs of ours saved long after our civ collapses be this bad?
Successful people are selected for a willingness to break rules when they can get away with it undetected.
Successful people are selected for a willingness to break rules when they can get away with it undetected.
If you beg for regulation, regulation is what you will get. Maybe not exactly the sort you had asked for though.
If you beg for regulation, regulation is what you will get. Maybe not exactly the sort you had asked for though.
Suggests to me that crime vouchers would preemptively institutionalize many people.
"Civil War" movie should have been called "Reporters With a Death Wish".
I respond here to @slatestarcodex critique of my position on medical effectiveness: overcomingbias.com/p/response-to-…
Episode 14 is up, with the one and only @robinhanson! We delve into his new essay "Beware Cultural Drift", ems & elephants, AI risk, institutions, aliens, the future, and much more. This might be the broadest interview I've done yet. Chapters, links, and transcript below. Enjoy!
Says Great Depression was caused by progressive income taxes, pushed by economists as replacement for tariffs they hated. forbes.com/sites/briandom…
Cultural trends regard to predict,
“Onward Christian robots”
Eliezer Yudkowsky ⏹.. @ESYudkowsky
175K Followers 89 Following The original AI alignment person. Missing punctuation at the end of a sentence means it's humor. If you're not sure, it's also very likely humor.
eigenrobot @eigenrobot
68K Followers 7K Following robot. friend. i am trying to achieve greatness longform at eigenrobot dot subst@ck dot com
Alex Tabarrok 🛡️ @ATabarrok
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Razib 🥥 Khan 🧬 .. @razibkhan
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Nick @nickcammarata
60K Followers 734 Following interested in neural network interpretability and meditation
Samo Burja @SamoBurja
60K Followers 233 Following There's never been an immortal society. Figuring out why. Founder of @bismarckanlys. @longnow fellow.
Michael Nielsen @michael_nielsen
96K Followers 6K Following Searching for the numinous 🇦🇺 🇨🇦, home in 🇺🇸 Research @AsteraInstitute https://t.co/maezekzRUb
Stefan Schubert @StefanFSchubert
28K Followers 2K Following Philosophy, psychology, and effective altruism.
Richard Ngo @RichardMCNgo
35K Followers 1K Following What would we need to understand in order to design an amazing future? Figuring that out @openai
tylercowen @tylercowen
231K Followers 526 Following new book *Talent: How to Identify Energizers, Winners, and Creatives Around the World*, https://t.co/7bU5cUdOBc, Conversations with Tyler, Bloomberg Opinion.
Captain Pleasure, And.. @algekalipso
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goblin costanza, worm.. @goblinodds
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Emil O W Kirkegaard @KirkegaardEmil
29K Followers 886 Following #psychology #genomics #hbd #rstats #statistics #transhumanism #dataviz #openscience #psychometrics @OpenPsychJour
mattparlmer 🪐 🌷 @mattparlmer
22K Followers 9K Following making machines that make other machines @genfabco - rationalist, humanist, liberal, and friend of the future
ExiledInfoHaz @ExiledInfoHaz
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Rob Bensinger ⏹️ @robbensinger
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A.B. @Th3N00B
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Andy Wilcox @andy_wilco
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Alexander Hamilton Ho.. @alexhaho
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Mack Gallagher ⏹ @MackAGallagher
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Andrew Gallimore @alieninsect
29K Followers 664 Following Tokyo. Computational neurobiologist, chemical pharmacologist, writer interested in psychedelics, especially DMT. Reality Switch Technologies OUT NOW
Tom Bishop @NotACyborgYet
139 Followers 364 Following CTO at Glass Imaging - reinventing smartphone photography with AI. Formerly ML Director at Intuition Machines; Portrait mode at Apple.
Eternal_Conciousness @EternalConcious
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Alexander Grenier @AC_Grenier
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Nicole Marino @hypacianhere
57 Followers 220 Following I've been a biotech investor, a VC, a macro forecaster, a construction salesperson, and now I'm starting Hypacia to be even more confusing
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Jack Reacher @JackReach516
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Jack Patterson @Succulentchonk
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Eliezer Yudkowsky ⏹.. @ESYudkowsky
175K Followers 89 Following The original AI alignment person. Missing punctuation at the end of a sentence means it's humor. If you're not sure, it's also very likely humor.
Alex Tabarrok 🛡️ @ATabarrok
76K Followers 673 Following Prof of economics at George Mason, co-founder of the online education platform https://t.co/yocRRymFPV. Advisor to firms, incl MultiversX, TEAL, Bluechip, 0L Network +
Bryan Caplan @bryan_caplan
68K Followers 3 Following GMU econ prof, NYT bestseller, father of 4, author of Myth of the Rational Voter, Selfish Reasons to Have More Kids, Case Against Education, and Open Borders.
Razib 🥥 Khan 🧬 .. @razibkhan
72K Followers 4K Following Genes Website: https://t.co/RMRko6hjiZ Cofounder: @genrait_inc YouTube: https://t.co/8qv9j8ivIo Advisor: @boltzmann_net Adisvor: @AtheistsLiberty
Michael Nielsen @michael_nielsen
96K Followers 6K Following Searching for the numinous 🇦🇺 🇨🇦, home in 🇺🇸 Research @AsteraInstitute https://t.co/maezekzRUb
Stefan Schubert @StefanFSchubert
28K Followers 2K Following Philosophy, psychology, and effective altruism.
Richard Ngo @RichardMCNgo
35K Followers 1K Following What would we need to understand in order to design an amazing future? Figuring that out @openai
tylercowen @tylercowen
231K Followers 526 Following new book *Talent: How to Identify Energizers, Winners, and Creatives Around the World*, https://t.co/7bU5cUdOBc, Conversations with Tyler, Bloomberg Opinion.
Agnes Callard @AgnesCallard
38K Followers 235 Following Philosopher, UChicago Book https://t.co/htazfAfUS3 Column https://t.co/GGvu8fOYmw NYT https://t.co/Jj56TECRDd YT https://t.co/hPgf2tGJWT podcast https://t.co/lVDi53CGer
David Chapman @Meaningness
31K Followers 137 Following Better ways of thinking, feeling, and acting—around problems of meaning and meaninglessness; self and society; ethics, purpose, and value.
mattparlmer 🪐 🌷 @mattparlmer
22K Followers 9K Following making machines that make other machines @genfabco - rationalist, humanist, liberal, and friend of the future
ExiledInfoHaz @ExiledInfoHaz
12K Followers 847 Following
Brian Chau @psychosort
11K Followers 677 Following Executive Director @aftfuture. Emergent Ventures 2022, IOI Gold 2017. e/🇺🇸
Kelsey Piper @KelseyTuoc
27K Followers 544 Following Senior writer at Vox's Future Perfect. [email protected]
Robert Wiblin @robertwiblin
34K Followers 643 Following Exploring the inviolate sphere of ideas one interview at a time: https://t.co/2YMw00bkIQ
Jason Crawford @jasoncrawford
33K Followers 3K Following Founder, @rootsofprogress. I write about the history of technology and the philosophy of progress. Working to build the progress community and movement
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20K Followers 688 Following Macroeconomist at George Mason University. Chief Economist at @bluechip_org. Former Capitol Hill staffer.
Spencer Greenberg �.. @SpencrGreenberg
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Neal Stephenson @nealstephenson
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Judge Glock @judgeglock
2K Followers 312 Following Director of Research and Senior Fellow, The Manhattan Institute, Author of "The Dead Pledge." Opinions are my own.
Jason Furman @jasonfurman
157K Followers 2K Following Professor of Practice at Harvard. Teaches Ec 10, some tweets might be educational. Also Senior Fellow @PIIE. Was Chair of President Obama's CEA.
Edward Dutton @jollyheretic
32K Followers 197 Following I enjoy researching controversial topics such as intelligence, race, religion and that. And trying to save the West 凤
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9K Followers 8K Following Crescat scientia; vita excolatur ◎ Investing & Software Engineer @recvcx ◎ @_ledao🥐 ◎ @InternDAO @Uchicago @Flexport
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71K Followers 2K Following Political Scientist. Grassroots Activist. Mom of 5. Daughter of a Marine Corps vet & Proud Latina. Leader of 🐻Mama Bears. This is our time for choosing.
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16K Followers 3K Following L.A. writer @WorksinProgMag THE FABRIC OF CIVILIZATION @BasicBooks. POWER OF GLAMOUR, SUBSTANCE OF STYLE, FUTURE & ITS ENEMIES https://t.co/lO0ECC3o1W
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@HiFromMichaelV @robinhanson Yes, my understanding is that there were lots of elderly people in mental institutions at the beginning of the graph.
@gwern @robinhanson It’s an interesting segue way to understanding local tribe formation, tolerance for captured attention etc
Seems like this would be the part to promote if you care about shaping the culture to become more fertility-oriented. 💗 “I acquired a love and empathy that I had never experienced before. […] having children was a “consciousness-expanding experience,”…
“I’d massively increase marginal tax rates on the second worker in any household to force them out of the labor market, which would lower their opportunity cost of having children.” That would work.
@robinhanson I am reminded of Diana Fleischman's claim that we're all eugenicists. dissentient.substack.com/p/eugenicist . It's a word which arouses a lot of pique.
@robinhanson @slatestarcodex Scott has linked to this on his blog, and added he will "probably have a response up sometime in the next week or two if I don’t get distracted."
Still in 2006, New York audience members of a late night show would publicly laugh at the idea that a guy using a naughty word was some kind of mortal sin. The past is another country.
I think people are having tunnel vision about the “western forces of Texas and California” thing. In the case of state breakdown, the allegiance of different military formations wouldn’t necessarily track the political opinions of the nearby civilian population.
@robinhanson I had a milder version of the same reaction when I reread it about a decade ago. Not enough there there, despite good points.
NYT: The problem with South Africa is not enough race communism. Given the modern political realities of that country, this should be seen as incitement to genocide.
Yet another sign of how Things Have Changed. At the local, very big hardware chain store you can't buy packages of this relatively common size nut with more than 4 nuts in them because (per the store manager, whom I asked) "people don't do that kind of project any more."
@robinhanson And more-so when by being detected and escaping with impunity they establish both their membership in a privileged class AND affirm and expand the de facto privilege of that class
I don't believe humanity and compassion require everyone to consume a firehose of information about all the terrible things happening around the world.
@robinhanson Depends on if civilization recovers and population exceeds a trillion. This is the best humanity could do with a population of 20 million. Now our music is made by the best of 8 billion and with an extra 3400 years of innovation to build upon, so it’s obviously going to be better
"Take Five" by The Dave Brubeck Quartet (1959)
this is why robin is the king
Will the few songs saved after our civ collapses be this bad?
A military aged male just served me pizza. War pizza, I’m sure. #nativistthoughts
You know, the sheer number of these people who are justifying their antisemitism by saying "it's okay, we hate them because they're white, not because they're Jewish" has forced me to rethink my stance on how serious the issue of anti-white racism is in this country...
The crux of the matter: Princeton and other elite universities are enforcing rules selectively, depending on what students are protesting. Except on matters directly relevant to higher education, universities should be politically neutral.
The @princetonian student editorial board on the University's "unprecedented" decision to remove Gaza protest encampments, while arresting and expelling student protestors. dailyprincetonian.com/article/2024/0…
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