Currents 011: Robin Hanson on RightTalkism

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Jim talks to Robin Hanson about social signaling & their tribal roots, politics, fighting RightTalkism, rationality, social media, wokeism, and more…

In this Currents episode, Jim talks to Robin Hanson about RightTalkism & our word fixation, social signaling, corporate speech, police reform, education & IQ, legalism vs Confucianism in China, Protestant & Catholics wars, floating abstractions, the tribal roots of our words, political duality, how to fight RightTalkism, saying “I don’t know”, rational talk vs action, social media, James Lindsey, wokeism & cancel culture, theory vs empiricism, abstract vs concrete speech, and more.

• overcomingbias.com
• Robin’s book, The Elephant in the Brain
• Robin’s book, The Age of Em
• JRS: EP2 Robin Hanson – Decision Making and “The Age of Em”
• The Atlantic article, Beware of Corporate Promises
• JRS: EP32 Jason Brennan on Irrational Democracy & Academia
• Jim’s article, An Introduction to Liquid Democracy

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.