Evidence receipt / belief
Published · transcript-backedTyler Cowen: belief
23 Dec 2025 Conversations with Tyler Conversations with Tyler 2025 Retrospective
“If it’s not their product, someone else will do the equivalent soon. You need a research paper in research paper format, I suspect.”
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- Tyler Cowen
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- 23 Dec 2025
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…Obviously, they need to put it in the format of a paper. Not necessarily, but would that be a step in the right direction of at least getting a fine-tuned LLM to give those kinds of referee remarks or feedback? I haven’t used Refine yet, but I strongly suspect the answer is yes. If it’s not their product, someone else will do the equivalent soon. You need a research paper in research paper format, I suspect. You just ask Refine, again, I haven’t used it, “Oh, what do you like or dislike about this blog post?” While interesting, it’s not what I’m asking for. There’s some truth to Bryan Caplan’s claim, “Don’t trust individual papers, trust literatures.” The spontaneous order sort of wisdom embedded in a literature is just sorely lacking here. You’ve offered to referee and you’ve talked to philanthropists. Is it just about somehow encouraging or subsidizing the creation of that literature? What is the binding constraint there?…
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