Conversations with Tyler / episode intelligence
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23 published records
01 / commitment
“Steven needs no introduction, per se, but I will point out, he has a new and excellent book called When Everyone Knows That Everyone Knows .”
02 / belief
“There could be a direct link between a public conspicuous signal and the desire to coordinate. I think you’re right.”
03 / uncertainty
“I don’t know whether it’s that linguists themselves have not made themselves useful enough, have not been part of the conversation, or the cynical view is linguistics has just been on the wrong track and it has nothing to contribute.”
04 / belief
“I think part of the understanding of the story is that children, being naive and innocent about certain conventions and norms that govern adult life, often do blurt out truths; they don’t have the same internal payoff structure that adults do.”
05 / uncertainty
“I don’t know if you could talk about the prior probability of a preference, but when it comes to just the brute force gut feeling, look, I just don’t like chocolate, that would be a case where it isn’t irrational to not share those priors.”
06 / belief
“I think that’s interesting because, as you say, it doesn’t result in war, and war would be much worse.”
07 / belief
“I think a somewhat different case, other than an utter lie, would be a genteel, benign hypocrisy, where you have a common pretense.”
08 / belief
“I think the most basic answer is that liberal enlightenment is not particularly intuitive.”
09 / commitment
“I won’t. I’m one of those freaks who just does not enjoy the taste of chocolate.”
10 / belief
“Not stirring enough. I think we do have such thinkers. Oh, Derek Thompson, Maarten Boudry, Cathy Young.”
11 / belief
“I would say North by Northwest, while a fine film, is really considerably below Rear Window and Vertigo.”
12 / belief
“We agree that the criteria are reasonable. We agree on everything that went on in both movies.”
13 / belief
“I think I’d say Bringing It All Back Home, Blood on the Tracks, and Highway 61 is number three.”
14 / commitment
“” I just know that that’s not true because I have records from performance on my multiple-choice test in my intro psych course, which I’ve taught for more than 20 years.”
15 / prediction
“The future for universalism, to me, looks quite grim. I think we will have a steady stream of low-level conflict across major powers.”
16 / prediction
“I don’t know if it was Aumann himself, it may have been, I think, Geanakoplos, who pointed out the corollary of Aumann’s theorem, which sounds totally counterintuitive, even crazy, is that rational agents should not engage in speculative trade.”
17 / prediction
“The reason, of course, being that it would be considered an affront, a challenge to China’s sense of authority, prestige, standing, preeminence, because it stakes a claim to all of historic China, which, if it was explicitly breached by formally recognizing Taiwan, it would be a challenge to China’s authority.”
18 / evaluation
“I think there’s a lot of interplay in human life between this recursive mentalizing, that is, thinking about other people thinking about other people, and the intuitive sense that something is out there, and therefore people do know that other people know it, even if you don’t have to consciously work that through.”
19 / evaluation
“In general, something that finds the truth, it’s got that going for it, and universalism, namely that if liberal enlightenment depends on universal human rights, the maximization of human interests, the fact that we’re ultimately birds of a feather, we all want to be alive rather than dead, that there is something logically incoherent in saying, “I deserve rights because I’m me and you don’t because you’re not me.”
20 / prediction
“” If there’s some point in the landscape that commends itself as something that is salient enough, obvious enough, recommends itself, like in Schelling’s example, he guessed that the couple would meet at the clock in the middle of Grand Central Station at noon, even if it wasn’t where they would have been separated, simply because if you have to pick some place, what place are you going to pick?”
21 / evaluation
“As Schelling notes, because he noted this is very fragile, he said this is the point when it comes to actually choosing what we now call a Schelling point, common salience, this is where game theory, rational analysis, logic, leave off, and human whimsy, caprice, even poetry, take over.”
22 / evaluation
“I think a lot of the shaming mobs, a lot of the trolling, a lot of the degradation of discourse in social media comes because of that anonymity.”
23 / evaluation
“I think of common knowledge as an extremely recursive model that typically has an infinite number of loops.”