Economist, rationalist and blogger Robin Hanson

Published: Jan. 28, 2010, 2:33 p.m.

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Colin Marshall talks to Robin Hanson, professor of economics at George Mason University, research associate at Oxford\\u2019s Future of Humanity Institute and chief scientist at Consensus Point. He\\u2019s also the thinker behind Overcoming Bias, a popular blog about issues of honesty, signaling, disagreement, forecasting and the far future, around which a large rationality-centric community has developed on the internet. \\u201cFlicking through Robin\\u2019s thoughts,\\u201d says the Observer, \\u201cyou start to feel the ground shifting beneath you.\\u201d

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