Tyler Cowen: belief

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…It’s almost become a Reddit-style repository of knowledge as it relates to travel. One of the things that I’ve learned to do when searching the internet for stuff is just to add the word Reddit to the end of a query to avoid all the SEO-ed crap at the top of the results and just get right to the Reddit page on a given topic, and for certain travel resources because how would Tyler know where to eat if there wasn’t a bleg on the blog about where to eat in some random city in the middle of nowhere? Now, after 20 years, there’re so many of these open comment threads about food recommendations, hotel recommendations, things to do in Singapore, things to do in Bolivia, wherever. It’s remarkable. I found myself years later just going on to MR, searching some country or city, and using that to guide travel planning. I do that too, and it might’ve been my post. The MR search function is the most underrated part of the blog, I think. That you call it the MR search function, which is the quintessential Tyler phrase that you’ve been using since the beginning.…

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