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Published · transcript-backedTyler Cowen: preference
16 Oct 2018 Conversations with Tyler Rob Wiblin interviews Tyler on *Stubborn Attachments*
“Very little. I’m quite a selfish person, I think, and I enjoy pursuing my own curiosity.”
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- Tyler Cowen
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- 16 Oct 2018
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- Conversations with Tyler
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…And throughout your career, how much has doing good guided your choice of what to work on? Very little. I’m quite a selfish person, I think, and I enjoy pursuing my own curiosity. Part of me at the meta level hopes that does some good, but I don’t think altruism is really, for me, a fundamental driving force. I enjoy absorbing information and communicating it to other people. And that’s, for me, what is fun. It’s interesting how much good people can do incidentally. All right, let’s move on to the book, Stubborn Attachments, which I guess is coming out in . . .…
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