Apr 18, 2019
In this podcast interview, Brendan Carr and Dr. Robin Hanson discuss bias, social dynamics, signaling, and hidden motives. Robin Hanson is associate professor of economics at George Mason University, and research associate at the Future of Humanity Institute of Oxford University. He has a doctorate in social science from California Institute of Technology, master's degrees in physics and philosophy from the University of Chicago, and nine years experience as a research programmer, at Lockheed and NASA.
Topics discussed:
-Why human brains grew out of competition, not collaboration
-Social signaling
-Self deception
-Social status
-How schools system train children to be ranked and dominated
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Robin's blog - http://www.overcomingbias.com/