073: Robin Hanson on The Age of Em and How Brain Emulations Will Double Economic Growth Every Month

Robin Hanson is associate professor of economics at George Mason University He is also a research associate at Oxford’s Future of Humanity Institute and chief scientist at Consensus Point. Robin has pioneered prediction markets, also known as information markets and idea futures, since 1988. Robin has a passion to understand everything, and to save the world. He is addicted to “viewquakes”, loves to argue one on one, and values honesty and passion. He blogs at OvercomingBias.com which has had over eight million visits. His book The Age of Em: Work, Love and Life When Robots Rule the Earth will be available in May 2016. Check out the show notes page at www.economicrockstar.com/roberthanson.