Tyler Cowen: belief

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…Hello, everyone. Welcome back to Conversations with Tyler. Today, I’m very happy to be here, live and in person, chatting with Any Austin. Now, I know not all of Conversations with Tyler listeners are on YouTube very actively or necessarily playing video games, but Any is, in fact, one of the most famous guests we have had on of late. His videos are watched by many millions of people. Most of our guests — I think, there’s a way of describing them as the best in the world at something, and if it’s Any, I would describe him as the very best in the world, without doubt, at the hermeneutics of infrastructure within video games. That is, he watches and plays video games, creates commentary and content on how the different parts of the game fit together. For instance, a very famous video he has created has the title, “Do Liberty City’s Power Lines Connect to Anything?” He will discuss topics such as unemployment, how you might find a job in a video game, the people in the background of the video game — what are they actually doing and why are they there — the roads, the cars, everything. There is no one like Any. He is really a phenomenon. We’re very happy to have him on Conversations with Tyler. Welcome. I’m very happy to be here and excited to be in this situation. I think it’s funny, and I would like to point out — simultaneously, you said I’m the best in the world at this and also the only, then, no one else is like me. I like the combination of those two things. I like being the best in the world at something that nobody else does. I think that’s a really good place to be.…

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