Robin Hanson

Robin Hanson

Author: KGRA Digital Broadcasting August 25, 2024 Duration: 1:55:01
On Sunday, August 25, 2024, at 1 p.m. U.S. Pacific Time, the U.S. Transhumanist Party invites Professor Robin Hanson to discuss his thoughts on the future of civilization, including the possibility of civilizational decline due to cultural drift and how to avoid this outcome. Some topics addressed will include declining fertility throughout the world, possible cultural responses, implications for a transhumanist and techno-optimistic vision of the future, as well as whether or not we are currently in a Great Filter. 
Robin Hanson is an Associate Professor of Economics at George Mason University, 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 Berkeley. His major fields of interest include health policy, regulation, and formal political theory. He is also interested in all aspects of the future, including uploading, nanotech, cosmology and the foundations of physics, future economic growth rates, limits of computation, and the origin of life.
Robin Hanson introduced the idea of the Great Filter in his 1998 essay, “The Great Filter – Are We Almost Past It?” – http://mason.gmu.edu/~rhanson/greatfilter.html 
Read Robin Hanson’s writings on his website, Overcoming Bias: https://www.overcomingbias.com/ 
See Robin Hanson’s home page at George Mason University: http://mason.gmu.edu/~rhanson/home.html 

Hosted by KGRA Digital Broadcasting, Transhumanist Party Enlightenment Salon revives the tradition of thoughtful discourse for a new age. This podcast convenes experts and visionaries from fields that shape our tomorrow: longevity research, artificial intelligence, futurist philosophy, political theory, and cultural critique. The aim is to weave together these often-separate threads, fostering connections that can lead to genuine breakthroughs in how we see the world and our place within it. Each episode is structured as a deep, extended conversation, allowing ideas the space and time they need to fully unfold. You’ll hear discussions that grapple with the practical and ethical implications of emerging technologies, examine the philosophical underpinnings of a transhumanist future, and consider how art and politics intersect with radical scientific advancement. It’s a forum dedicated to rigorous, long-form dialogue in pursuit of a more rational and informed society. Tuning into this podcast means joining a modern salon, one where complex questions about human enhancement, societal evolution, and collective intelligence are explored with seriousness and intellectual curiosity. The conversations recorded here are not soundbites; they are immersive journeys into the minds at the forefront of redefining what it means to be human.
Author: Language: English Episodes: 100

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Duration: 1:54:13
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