Robin Hanson

Robin Hanson is an American economist at George Mason University who builds markets that turn opinions into prices. He pioneered prediction markets in the late 1980s, invented the logarithmic market scoring rule that underpins many modern betting and crypto markets, and proposed futarchy, a system of governance where we 'vote on values but bet on beliefs.' He is the author of The Age of Em, a detailed forecast of a civilization run by emulated human brains, and co-author of The Elephant in the Brain, which argues most of our behavior is driven by hidden, self-serving motives we'd rather not admit. He blogs at Overcoming Bias and coined the term 'the Great Filter.'