Evidence receipt / belief
Published · transcript-backedDaron Acemoglu: belief
12 Aug 2026 Conversations with Tyler Daron Acemoglu on Liberalism, Automation, and the Educated Elite
“Look, I think what we have seen in Russia and in the United States, both before COVID and during COVID, is that public health is a major contributor to mortality and morbidity.”
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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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…You may reach 100, right? You already told me you’re younger than I am. I have an outside chance. Save accordingly. Okay, I’m agreeing with you. I’m going to reach 100. Look, I think what we have seen in Russia and in the United States, both before COVID and during COVID, is that public health is a major contributor to mortality and morbidity. Computational biology is very exciting. I find it super exciting. New drugs, AI or not, they’re pretty amazing. By the way, many of the new drugs we’re making right now all predate AI. There are some companies that are doing very interesting AI-based drug discovery, but none of them are using large language models. That’s a different question. It’s computational nonetheless, right?…
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