15 Facts About Robin Hanson

Robin Dale Hanson was born on August 28,1959 and is an American economist and author.

Robin Hanson is associate professor of economics at George Mason University and a former research associate at the Future of Humanity Institute of Oxford University.

Robin Hanson invented market scoring rules like LMSR used by prediction markets such as Consensus Point, and has conducted research on signalling.

Robin Hanson received a BS in physics from the University of California, Irvine in 1981, an MS in physics and an MA in Conceptual Foundations of Science from the University of Chicago in 1984, and a PhD in social science from Caltech in 1997 for his thesis titled Four puzzles in information and politics: Product bans, informed voters, social insurance, and persistent disagreement.

Robin Hanson is married to Peggy Jackson, a hospice social worker, and has two children.

Robin Hanson is the son of a Southern Baptist preacher.

Robin Hanson has elected to have his brain cryonically preserved in the event of medical death.

Robin Hanson was involved early on in the creation of the Rationalist community through online weblogs.

Robin Hanson is clearly not a man afraid to challenge the conventional wisdom.

Robin Hanson is credited with originating the concept of the Policy Analysis Market, a DARPA project to implement a market for betting on future developments in the Middle East.

Robin Hanson has expressed great disappointment in DARPA's cancellation of its related FutureMAP project, and he attributes this to the controversy surrounding the related Total Information Awareness program.

Robin Hanson created and supports a proposed system of government called futarchy, in which policies would be determined by prediction markets.

Robin Hanson wrote that he found it puzzling that similar concern had not been shown for incels as for low-income individuals.

Robin Hanson coined the term Great Filter, referring to whatever prevents "dead matter" from becoming an expanding and observable intelligent civilization.

Robin Hanson was motivated to seek his doctorate so that his theories would reach a wider audience.