Conversations with Tyler / episode intelligence
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23 published records
01 / evaluation
“A phone is an experience blocker. That means you spend a lot less time talking to other people, in the presence of other people.”
02 / belief
“I could well be wrong about this, but overall, I think probably we’re doing it too much in terms of what’s good for young people.”
03 / belief
“My argument is that the virtual life, the phone-based life is blocking that, so it’s not like they’re going to be able to grow up without that stuff. I think your argument is that AI will play the role of whatever the Aztecs did.”
04 / observation
“” To which I say, “Yes, can you imagine if the only way they could connect was by calling them up on the phone or texting them, or Skype or Zoom or FaceTime, or multiplayer video games or many, many other ways that the internet allows you to connect.”
05 / observation
“You want to please your customers. But the point is, let’s say Meta has a 1 percent failure rate in trying to do this, which would be an amazingly good performance.”
06 / belief
“Complete disaster strikes me as too strong a term for something that hasn’t happened yet. I think you’re much too confident about that.”
07 / belief
“Total honor system, no enforcement, no cameras, no punishment,” I think shoplifting will go way, way up.”
08 / disagreement
“You don’t have to have an algorithmically driven platform to find other kids who share your interest, so I disagree with that premise.”
09 / observation
“Fine. The point is, it’s not effortless to walk in. You could get caught. I’m not saying we have to get 100 percent.”
10 / uncertainty
“I think I see what you’re saying now, but I think your view would say, “Just for some reason we don’t know, things changed around 2012.”
11 / belief
“I think we know people on the left were keener to close the schools or keep the schools closed.”
12 / uncertainty
“I visited Anthropic and OpenAI. A lot of the people there were extremely young; I don’t know exact birth dates.”
13 / belief
“You may be right. I think I’m right that we’re going into a dip. It’s gigantic in terms of mental health impact, suicide rates, self-harm, hospitalizations, missed potential.”
14 / evaluation
“17 with depression, anxiety, and self-harm. So, the effect is actually much bigger than many people realize in the scientific community because you have to zoom in on girls and social media.”
15 / preference
“If you’re suggesting that we could outsource all of that bad stuff to AI so that kids don’t actually have to know what’s going on in their friend’s life — they don’t have to keep up with who said what to whom because they’re never going to actually meet their friend in person — then I would say, maybe that could work because we’re all just alone in a room.”
16 / prediction
“I’m not sure about Christmas vacation, but the point is, it’s very clear: Every year, as soon as kids go back to school, the suicide rate goes up.”
17 / recommendation
“I think that you can’t just be a programmer alone, that the nature of companies now is not that you do it in your dorm room at Harvard, but it requires synthetic abilities.”
18 / preference
“I think we agree that if we could liberate the kids from that so that they could really spend a lot more time hanging out together unsupervised, they would be better off.”
19 / evaluation
“First, I believe the Time Use studies don’t count school time as time with friends because what they’re trying to do is like, how much time you’re in school, how much time you’re sleeping, how much time you’re eating, how much time you’re playing with friends.”
20 / evaluation
“Over and over again, whether we look at left-right or whether we look at religion, what we find is that it’s the secular kids and the liberal kids who got washed out to sea, got really depressed after 2012, and much less effect on the conservative and religious kids because, I think, they’re more rooted.”
21 / evaluation
“What I would say is that every culture needs a set of stories and moral values, moral principles and metaphors so that they can speak to each other, and they can quickly refer to things that have a lot of meanings for the listener.”
22 / evaluation
“” By the time I wrote chapter 7 and 8 of The Righteous Mind and really committed to understanding conservatives and libertarians, I realized, wow, there’s a lot of wisdom from all three perspectives: liberal, conservative, and libertarian.”
23 / evaluation
“The new identitarianism reverses that because it’s all about power and oppression.”