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27 Dec 2023 Conversations with Tyler Conversations with Tyler 2023 Retrospective
“I think the price of energy is going to go up a lot because people will need to compute, and they’ll be building all these new projects, and that’s a good thing.”
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- Tyler Cowen
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- 27 Dec 2023
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- Conversations with Tyler
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…Paul Sabin, The Bet: Paul Ehrlich, Julian Simon, and Our Gamble over Earth’s Future. In any given year, it changes who is looking better in that bet. The funny thing I’ve realized is that Ehrlich’s, in a funny way, is the more optimistic prognosis, that rising resource prices is a sign that AI is working. I think the price of energy is going to go up a lot because people will need to compute, and they’ll be building all these new projects, and that’s a good thing. So, in a funny way, the Simon side is pessimistic. Charles Moore, Margaret Thatcher, biography.…
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