Evidence receipt / belief
Published · transcript-backedDaron Acemoglu: belief
12 Aug 2026 Conversations with Tyler Daron Acemoglu on Liberalism, Automation, and the Educated Elite
“I think that would be an amazing thing. Our society would be so much better. I wish it were.”
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- Daron Acemoglu
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- belief
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- 12 Aug 2026
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- Conversations with Tyler
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…If we look at, say, 1995 to 1998, we have an IT boom. It looks quite unsexy by current standards, but productivity growth goes up by at least half a percentage point. I would be shocked if what we have now didn’t do at least as much for us. I completely reject the crazy utopian or dystopian estimates, but would you be willing to say that half a percentage point of productivity growth is certainly something easily imaginable and maybe to be expected? Or is that still too high for you? I think that would be an amazing thing. Our society would be so much better. I wish it were. Your prediction.…
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