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Ep 37: Robin Hanson & The Elephant in the Brain
Manage episode 206024925 series 1269299
Robin Hanson explores a future of robotic human uploads, helps us worry about The Great Filter, gives us strategies for living in a Simulation, and casually points out the Elephant in the Brain.
Bio:
Robin Hanson is an associate professor of economics at George Mason University and a research associate of the Future of Humanity Institute of Oxford University. He is the author of The Age of Em: Work, Love and Life when Robots Rule the Earth and
The Elephant in the Brain: Hidden Motives in Everyday Life, with co-author Kevin Simler.
Topics:
- Is Robin a "sex redistribution professor"?
- The Elephant in the Brain
- Why do we hide our actual motives from ourselves?
- Ignorance as a strategy
- The log in the eye — Jesus' version of the elephant in the brain
- Is the "elephant" an evolutionary version of the Christian concept of a "fallen nature"?
- Does anyone believe in creationism?
- Where does religion come from?
- What will life be like when robots rule the earth?
- Why human brains will probably be with us for a very long time
- The Great Filter
- Read about The Great Filter, or watch the TEDx talk
- What stands between dead matter, and expanding lasting life?
- "Something out there is killing everything, and you're likely next."
- How to live in a simulation
- The Simulation Argument (see also a religious version and why we should believe we are not alone)
- Why Donald Trump is probably living in a Simulation — and you aren't.
Books & Links:
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Manage episode 206024925 series 1269299
Robin Hanson explores a future of robotic human uploads, helps us worry about The Great Filter, gives us strategies for living in a Simulation, and casually points out the Elephant in the Brain.
Bio:
Robin Hanson is an associate professor of economics at George Mason University and a research associate of the Future of Humanity Institute of Oxford University. He is the author of The Age of Em: Work, Love and Life when Robots Rule the Earth and
The Elephant in the Brain: Hidden Motives in Everyday Life, with co-author Kevin Simler.
Topics:
- Is Robin a "sex redistribution professor"?
- The Elephant in the Brain
- Why do we hide our actual motives from ourselves?
- Ignorance as a strategy
- The log in the eye — Jesus' version of the elephant in the brain
- Is the "elephant" an evolutionary version of the Christian concept of a "fallen nature"?
- Does anyone believe in creationism?
- Where does religion come from?
- What will life be like when robots rule the earth?
- Why human brains will probably be with us for a very long time
- The Great Filter
- Read about The Great Filter, or watch the TEDx talk
- What stands between dead matter, and expanding lasting life?
- "Something out there is killing everything, and you're likely next."
- How to live in a simulation
- The Simulation Argument (see also a religious version and why we should believe we are not alone)
- Why Donald Trump is probably living in a Simulation — and you aren't.
Books & Links:
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