Evidence receipt / belief
Published · transcript-backedTyler Cowen: belief
2 Oct 2024 Conversations with Tyler Kyla Scanlon on Communicating Economic Ideas through Social Media
“Historically, you see societies finding ways out, but if we knew the formula, I think we’d be out of it already, and we’re not out of it.”
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- 2 Oct 2024
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…Do you think there’s a way out of it? Historically, you see societies finding ways out, but if we knew the formula, I think we’d be out of it already, and we’re not out of it. I know that I don’t know the formula. I try to do my small bit, but no, there’s no formula, I think. Some of it’s luck, better dynamics, maybe people who are more analytic making more of an effort, but that might be small relative to just events. It’s interesting, too, because you see people wanting to escape, I think. The people that normally might have contributed to a shifting towards positivity are instead retreating into subgroups. Everything’s fragmenting.…
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