Evidence receipt / uncertainty
Published · transcript-backedTyler Cowen: uncertainty
16 Oct 2018 Conversations with Tyler Rob Wiblin interviews Tyler on *Stubborn Attachments*
“I don’t know if that even counts as a conspiracy theory, but it’s some kind of conspiracy.”
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- Tyler Cowen
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- uncertainty
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- 16 Oct 2018
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- Conversations with Tyler
Transcript context
…I agree. Which conspiracy theory is most likely to be true? I think almost all of them are false. I blogged once, the notion that some major sporting events might be fixed for reasons related to betting and corruption. I don’t know if that even counts as a conspiracy theory, but it’s some kind of conspiracy. I would be surprised if that were not more true than we realize, but that’s a pretty minor-league — forgive the pun — conspiracy. You think that there’s many plural values. Is it nonetheless possible that the best future would involve just maxing out on one of those values because it’s more efficient to produce that value than the other ones? You can get more bang for buck?…
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