# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/robin-hanson
# Generated: 2026-08-13T00:34:26.428Z

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url: "https://fame.am/person/robin-hanson"
name: "Robin Hanson"
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description: "Robin Dale Hanson is an American economist and author. He is associate professor of economics at George Mason University and a former research associate at the Future of Humanity Institute of Oxford University. Hanson is known for his work on idea futures and markets, and he was involved in the creation of the Foresight Institute's Foresight Exchange and DARPA's FutureMAP project. He invented market scoring rules like LMSR used by prediction markets such as Consensus Point, and has conducted research on signalling. He also proposed the Great Filter hypothesis."
tagline: "American economist (1959-)"
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birthDate: "1959-08-28"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump