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Don't miss his response to my followup question! @robinhanson says *conscious* signaling explains only 30% of human behavior.
.@tylercowen: 'How much of human behavior ultimately can be traced back to some kind of signaling?'
@robinhanson 'In a rich society like ours, well over 90 percent.'
A fascinating interview about Robin Hanson's new book 'The elephant in the brain'https://medium.com/conversations-with-tyler/robin-hanson-tyler-cowen-signaling-the-elephant-in-the-brain-e1444b69baa7 …
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Try these related questions: 1) What % of business behavior in the long run is explained by profit maximization? 2) What % is explained by *conscious* profit maximization?
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Let me know if you end up identifying a specific disagreement with our book, rather than just generic suspicions you have of economists.
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Not familiar with the work of
@robinhanson. Interested in reading this book. Just bought Trivers' Folly of Fools & wonder if any of the same ground is covered -
Some overlap, but most is distinct.
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Very important and yet still reductionist. We think of signaling in integrative metatheory as the “dominant mode of resonance” in a social holon (tribe), which is only 1/8 of reality. Important though.
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