Robin Hanson
Economist whose Overcoming Bias blog seeded the online rationalist community
An economist at George Mason University. Overcoming Bias, the blog he started and later shared with Eliezer Yudkowsky, is where the online rationalist community began before it moved to LessWrong.
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