Evidence receipt / uncertainty
Published · transcript-backedTyler Cowen: uncertainty
28 Sept 2022 Dwarkesh Podcast Tyler Cowen - Talent, Collapse, & Pessimism of Sex
“I don't know what I can do about it. I try actually to do something about it so I have a reaction.”
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- Tyler Cowen
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- Claim type
- uncertainty
- Recorded
- 28 Sept 2022
- Publisher
- Dwarkesh Podcast
Transcript context
…Right. Do you have an emotional reaction to the idea that the human story is almost certain to end? Do you think we only have 700 years of this left? I don't know what I can do about it. I try actually to do something about it so I have a reaction. But I'm aware of the extreme fallibility embedded in all such projections. I'm like, let's just wake up this morning, and let's do some stuff now. And like, I'm going to do it. I hope there's a payoff under all these different scenarios. Yeah. Do you think that as state capacity just continues to decline—…
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