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Tyler Cowen: evaluation

28 Sept 2022 Dwarkesh Podcast Tyler Cowen - Talent, Collapse, & Pessimism of Sex

“There's a whole bunch of proposals that really need the money for capital costs, and then it matters a lot. For a lot of them, the money per se doesn't matter.”

— Tyler Cowen

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Tyler Cowen
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28 Sept 2022
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Dwarkesh Podcast

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…How much does the money part of Emergent Ventures matter? If you just didn't give them the money? There's a whole bunch of proposals that really need the money for capital costs, and then it matters a lot. For a lot of them, the money per se doesn't matter. Right, then. So what is the function of return for that? Do you like 10x the money, or do you add .1x the money for some of these things? Do you think they add up to seemingly different results?…

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