Tyler Cowen: preference

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…I was reflecting — obviously, when you review the year in Conversations with Tyler, you start thinking about the origin story. It started as an event series. I don’t know if we’ve talked about that on the podcast. I’ve definitely talked about it with listeners, but this got a slow start, where it started as an event series. It was sporadic, a little slapdash, and eventually it came in clusters where we would do a few, and then there’d be a break. Then it became a once-a-month thing, and now it’s once every two weeks. But this year, with all the in-between episodes that we released, it became almost a three-per-month year of Conversations with Tyler. Did you feel it? Yes. Ideally, a podcast, I think, should be once every day. That’s not possible for a number of reasons, but there is something socially optimal about that: that you wake up in the morning and you know there’s a podcast for you, and you only listen, say, to the 11 a year you care about the most, but that will be a different 11 for every person. Are you ready? [laughter] You talked to me about another podcast idea before this. That’s not the first time you’ve brought up the daily podcast. Maybe soon, everyone will have their AI assistant, and everyone will have their personal podcast, and it’ll be up to the listener to decide whose they want to spend time with.…

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