Robin Hanson wants to rule the world -just as CEOs and heads of states do for a living.

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Our Master Of All Universes moans that the Free World&#8217-s private and public decision makers rarely or never ask him for advice &#8212-even though he sits on many &#8220-Boards Of Advisors&#8221- (like NewsFutures&#8216- one), which are, by definition, set up to provide advice &#8212-or so he thought, at inception. How come CEOs and heads of states are not imploring him for advice to help them run the word, he asks. He blogs that advisers are probably paid primarily for the prestige value that they lend to the company.

Which leads me to realize that I pay zero French franc for having economist Michael Giberson on our Scientific Advisory Board, which is quite about what his prestige is worth in the field of prediction markets, as of today. :-D That might change in the future, though &#8212-especially if I continue to flatter him publicly in posts like this present one. He might suffer from ego inflation and charge me for using his so-called &#8220-prestige value&#8221-. All economists, be damned. They are as greedy as the people they study.

2 thoughts on “Robin Hanson wants to rule the world -just as CEOs and heads of states do for a living.

  1. Decision Markets and Futarchy are solutions in desperate search for a problem to solve and for their early adopters… and that may stay that way well after Robin Hanson's head gets cryogenized. | Midas Oracle .ORG said:

    […] his little clique of fanboys, or touring the world to plug futarchy to gullible audience, but to consult with the 1% of the Fortune-500 companies that could be truly interested in that radical […]

  2. Decision Markets and Futarchy are solutions in desperate search for a problem to solve and for their early adopters… and that may stay that way well after Robin Hanson's head gets cryogenized. | Midas Oracle .ORG said:

    […] his little clique of fanboys, or touring the world to plug futarchy to gullible audience, but to consult with the 1% of the Fortune-500 companies that could be truly interested in that radical […]