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9 Jan 2025 Dwarkesh Podcast Tyler Cowen — The #1 bottleneck to AI progress is humans
“I think he made one very bad set of decisions relating to deflation and letting nominal GDP fall.”
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- Tyler Cowen
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- 9 Jan 2025
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- Dwarkesh Podcast
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…Who? Woodrow Wilson? Yeah, one of our two or three worst presidents on civil rights. World War I, he screwed up. The peace process, he screwed up. Indirectly led to World War II. Reintroduced segregation of civil service in some key regards. Just seemed he was a nasty guy and should have been out of office sooner given his health and state of mind. So he was terrible. But he was, on paper, a great candidate. Hoover on paper was a great candidate and was an extremely impressive guy. I think he made one very bad set of decisions relating to deflation and letting nominal GDP fall. But my goodness, there's a reason they called it the Hoover Institution after Hoover. But the Hitler, Stalin, Mao's. Was there something that was going on that explains why that was just a crummy time for world leaders?…
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