Tyler Cowen: uncertainty

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…Virginia doesn’t even have cities. That’s right. It’s one of the best things about it as a state. Virginia Beach is not a real city. Fairfax County is not a real city. Richmond, I don’t know, is a few hundred thousand people. It feels like a small real city. It’s just not that important. Now, let’s say you’re designing a 10-day trip through Yunnan for our listeners, and say they don’t speak any Chinese, not really, but they have ChatGPT, and they’re a bit adventurous. Where should they go? What’s the trip like? If you have 10 days, I would say that you can cover quite a lot of Yunnan from the south to the north, or vice versa. You can go to Xishuangbanna in the south, which is my favorite corner of Yunnan, which has a lot of remarkable ethnic diversity. You have certain ethnic groups that essentially dwell within one mountain, and they have a lot of their own customs and rites and practices, as well as some of their own language, and a lot of their own cuisines. It is where the Mekong River flows. Essentially, it is the first major city that flows along the Mekong, which takes the meltwater from the Tibetan Himalayans that flow down. It is a tropical rainforest. You can get excellent mango, durian, all sorts of tropical fruits. It is my favorite region of China to eat. You will have some grilled fish, a lot of quite spicy beef, as well as other meats. What I like to do is to just have a really big lunch, and then for dinner, I will buy a variety of tropical fruits, whether that’s mango, durian, a lot of other things as well. Then, you can drive.…

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