[aab0]

> (He's at George Mason University, which is a right-wing think tank, and has to say stuff like that to get tenure.)

Hanson was an extreme libertarian long before he got tenure or joined GMU, or even before he invented prediction markets.

[Animats]

I know. I think I met him when Xanadu was being developed. (Xanadu was a pre-WWW technology for storing and distributing hypertext documents. Everything is pay per view in Xanadu. The Xanadu crowd were mostly fanatical libertarians. Everything is a market, with micropayments for everything.)

[dredmorbius]

Does that includ Ted Nelson himself?

My interest in Xanadu has just dropped a few orders of magnitude.