I’m a 3rd year Economics Undergrad student at the University of Glasgow. I found LessWrong, by reading a Profile on Peter Thiel, my interest are: economics (obviously, used to be macro but now gearing towards more experimental area’s.) philosophy, mostly stoic; not Seneca etc but Aurelius ‘Meditations’, history of maths and risk. Financial markets to an extent, but it’s not something I’m pursuing religiously. I have always been interested in self-development but though that the literature would need to be seriously scrutinized, so I’m very happy that I found this place. Singularity, from a economic point of view. Transhumanism is something I find extremely interesting combined with Cognitive enhancement at the moment, I’m still mapping the territory of it.
I’m fairly new to singularity etc. but from what I have read so far. Looking at singularity as a if scenario through Brain Emulation’s (uploading). How would this affect the economy regarding, emplyment, growth etc. So far I have found papers looking at economics of singularity from Robin Hanson. I’m struggling finding other source’s so I would be very grateful if someone would like to contribute.
I don’t really know of any myself. It’s hard to do economics about such divergent and unclear scenarios, and economists typically do them as jokes (eg. Paul Krugman’s paper on investing in a relativistic time travel framework). And there seem to be penalties—that Hanson paper from 2008 still has not been published 4 years later, for example.
(To gwern and Will_Newsome) Haha that’s great, it’s a somewhat juvenile undertone in Krugman’s writing in this paper. that’s exactly the kind of paper’s i’m looking for—paper’s that are something of a outlier in the field of economics, if any other paper’s come’s to mind in the same direction it would be appreciated.
Hi!
I’m a 3rd year Economics Undergrad student at the University of Glasgow. I found LessWrong, by reading a Profile on Peter Thiel, my interest are: economics (obviously, used to be macro but now gearing towards more experimental area’s.) philosophy, mostly stoic; not Seneca etc but Aurelius ‘Meditations’, history of maths and risk. Financial markets to an extent, but it’s not something I’m pursuing religiously. I have always been interested in self-development but though that the literature would need to be seriously scrutinized, so I’m very happy that I found this place. Singularity, from a economic point of view. Transhumanism is something I find extremely interesting combined with Cognitive enhancement at the moment, I’m still mapping the territory of it.
Cheers / UngnsCobra
Welcome to Less Wrong! Your interests sound interesting. What does it mean to look at the Singularity from an economic point of view?
I’m fairly new to singularity etc. but from what I have read so far. Looking at singularity as a if scenario through Brain Emulation’s (uploading). How would this affect the economy regarding, emplyment, growth etc. So far I have found papers looking at economics of singularity from Robin Hanson. I’m struggling finding other source’s so I would be very grateful if someone would like to contribute.
I don’t really know of any myself. It’s hard to do economics about such divergent and unclear scenarios, and economists typically do them as jokes (eg. Paul Krugman’s paper on investing in a relativistic time travel framework). And there seem to be penalties—that Hanson paper from 2008 still has not been published 4 years later, for example.
For those who are interested.
(To gwern and Will_Newsome) Haha that’s great, it’s a somewhat juvenile undertone in Krugman’s writing in this paper. that’s exactly the kind of paper’s i’m looking for—paper’s that are something of a outlier in the field of economics, if any other paper’s come’s to mind in the same direction it would be appreciated.