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Robin Hanson is an Associate Professor of Economics, and received his Ph.D in 1997 in social sciences from Caltech. He joined George Mason’s economics faculty in 1999 after completing a two-year post-doc at U.C Berkely. His major fields of interest include health policy, regulation, and formal political theory.

Index to The Jim Rutt Show featuring Robin Hanson

1. Introduction and “The Age of Em” (00:00:00 – 00:36:00) = 36 minutes
2. Rates of Change (00:36:00 – 00:39:00) = 3 minutes
3. The Fermi Paradox (00:39:00 – 00:59:00) = 20 minutes
4. “The Elephant in the Brain” (00:59:00 – 01:14:00) = 15 minutes
5. Political Decision Making Section (01:14:00 – 01:26:00) = 12 minutes
6. Should We Publish Tax Returns? (01:26:00 – 01:37:00) = 11 minutes

Transcript of The Jim Rutt Show featuring Robin Hanson

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Simon DeDeo is an Assistant Professor at Carnegie Mellon University in the Department of Social and Decision Sciences, and External Professor at the Santa Fe Institute. He is also affiliated with the Cognitive Science program at Indiana University, where he runs the Laboratory for Social Minds. For three years, from 2010 to 2013, he was an Omidyar Fellow at the Santa Fe Institute.

He and his collaborators study how people use words and signals, and the ideas they represent, to create a world. They have studied a diverse set of systems that includes the French Revolution, the courtrooms of Victorian London, the research strategies of Charles Darwin, the insurgency of modern-day Afghanistan, the emergent bureaucracy of Wikipedia, the creation of power hierarchies among the social animals, and the collusions and conspiracies of petrol stations in the American Midwest. They combine data from the contemporary world, archives from the deep past, statistical tools from cosmology, and models of human cognition from Bayesian reasoning and information theory to understand how cultures grow, flourish, innovate, and evolve.

Index to The Jim Rutt Show featuring Simon DeDeo

1. Introduction to Simon DeDeo (00:00:00 to 00:11:00) = 11 minutes
2. Noise vs. Signal: The Fermi Paradox (00:11:00 to 00:23:00) = 12 minutes
3. Social Media and Blocklists (00:23:00 to 00:48:00) = 25 minutes
4. Remembrances of Murray Gell-Mann (00:48:00 to 00:56:00) = 18 minutes
5. Cultural Evolution (00:56:00 to 01:13:00) = 17 minutes
6. Consciousness (01:13:00 to 01:30:00) = 17 minutes
7. Science Fiction (01:30:00 to 01:38:00) = 8 minutes

Transcript of The Jim Rutt Show featuring Simon DeDeo