Robin Hanson is an associate professor of economics at George Mason University. He is known as an expert on idea futures markets and was involved in the creation of the Foresight Exchange and DARPA's FutureMAP project. Hanson has expressed great disappointment in the cancellation of the FutureMAP project, and he attributes this to the controversy surrounding the related Total Information Awareness program. Wikipedia
I certainly found the interview provided a very valuable background for understanding and integrating Robin Hanson's ideas - many of which I had already encountered, but I lacked the perspective to put them together. www.econtalk.org/archives/2007/05/hanson_on_healt.html
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... the Doomsday Argument by Robin Hanson 27Aug98 A thought-provoking argument suggests we should expect the extinction of intelligent life on Earth soon. In the end, however, the argument... hanson.gmu.edu/nodoom.html
(FORTUNE Magazine) Robin Hanson is a married, 44-year-old father of two who teaches economics at George Mason University, a commuter school with aspirations that's plunked amid the affluent sprawl of northern Virginia. money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2003/09/1...
