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12 Apr 2017 Conversations with Tyler Patrick Collison has a Few Questions for Tyler (Live at Stripe)
“Nothing’s “probability zero” but I won’t make the assessment in an instrumentally rational way.”
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- Tyler Cowen
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- 12 Apr 2017
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- Conversations with Tyler
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…Even if one of these versions comes to pass? I don’t think I would know by then. I find it unaesthetic, and just my temperament: I’m not attracted to people who are either bullies or who pretend they’re bullies. And just that mood affiliation, I don’t want. Nothing’s “probability zero” but I won’t make the assessment in an instrumentally rational way. So, it’s pretty close to zero. Obviously, Trump is in the throes of making all sorts of, at least by traditional standards, unconventional appointments. If he created the new role of Czar of Great Stagnation–Ending and asked you to take the job, what would your policies be?…
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