Robin Hanson has studied physics, philosophy, artificial intelligence, economics, and political science, and is the founder and curator of the blog Overcoming Bias, the theme of which is how to move our beliefs closer to reality.

Electric James joined us to talk rationality, biases, social institutions, transhumanism, prediction markets/economics, the blockchain, cryonics and human emulation.

 Show notes and links hereRobin's work:The Age of EmThe Elephant in the BrainOvercoming Bias (Robins Blog)Recorded in Leipzig, GermanyTheme Song by Cosmic Tortoise