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Tyler Cowen: uncertainty

23 Dec 2025 Conversations with Tyler Conversations with Tyler 2025 Retrospective

“Isn’t uncontrollable laughter in some ways a kind of displeasure? I don’t know, since I’ve never had it.”

— Tyler Cowen

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Tyler Cowen
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uncertainty
Recorded
23 Dec 2025
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Conversations with Tyler

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…This is consistent with how you presented yourself before, where you’ve talked about how you feel like you don’t have the extreme highs and lows of other people. You’re much more of a steady middle kind of person. Either displeasure or pleasure, you don’t get the extremes as much. Isn’t uncontrollable laughter in some ways a kind of displeasure? I don’t know, since I’ve never had it. In the sense that sometimes, if you get tickled, sometimes you’re laughing, but you want it to stop.…

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