Conversations with Tyler / episode intelligence
Speakers in the public record
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36 published records
01 / belief
“If I think about things like — Ron Sexsmith, I think his name is — a composer in Toronto, has made these musical pieces based on the different periods in the solar system.”
02 / belief
“I think so much money is going in, and it’s going in on the basis of brand to some extent.”
03 / belief
“I think seeing so many people who are doing very worthwhile things which have no or very little institutional chance of support, being amplified — that I care about a great deal, and it seems like EV is one of the places that is doing that the best.”
04 / belief
“I think over the long term, the most important of those was, for many years I would have said Illich.”
05 / belief
“I think getting off planet Earth and establishing a civilization elsewhere is very, very important.”
06 / belief
“I think my p has gone up a modest amount over time. When I was, say, in my young 20s, I thought physics was going to make more progress than it has at fundamental theoretical levels.”
07 / belief
“I’ve heard people say it’s dull, but I think some of the most interesting experiences of my life were there.”
08 / belief
“Famously, what was it, he asked for $3,000 a year when he moved to the IAS, and they gave him $15,000. I think he wasn’t very good at negotiating.”
09 / belief
“” I think that people who are good at identifying people who are able to expand boundaries like that — they need to have some sense of that edge.”
10 / belief
“Casey Handmer has a nice book, which I think is way too optimistic in many of its assumptions, but he’s got the right scale.”
11 / belief
“Good reason to do so. I think I’m inclined to think, and there’s always this interesting balance.”
12 / belief
“If quantum computing happens as you’re predicting it will, that, I think, would also make matrix algebra rise in status, like, “Oh, this is a really important tool.”
13 / belief
“An interesting, unsuspected way — that would be terrific and I think is not completely out of the question, but it probably doesn’t affect anything about consciousness or anything like that.”
14 / belief
“You’re an economist. I’m a romantic, I think. [laughter] Might be the difference.”
15 / observation
“The problem is, of course, it’s very helpful for motivational reasons to have answers to that, but your answers never turn out to be what the correct answer was.”
16 / commitment
“I’ve heard you ask it before. I will learn much more deeply about religion than I have in the past.”
17 / belief
“I think from the point of view of the authors, it really actually doesn’t make that much sense.”
18 / commitment
“For me, the reason I do spaced repetition and the reason I will come on a podcast with somebody like you who asks very interesting questions — it’s the same.”
19 / belief
“If you look at, say, the culture around Jupyter Notebooks in machine learning, I think having those very openly available and widely available really has driven a lot of progress.”
20 / belief
“I think more about tension than about religion per se, and it’s very useful for that.”
21 / belief
“You denied saying this, but somebody once said to me that travel is the only education, and it’s really stayed with me as expressing some deep truth. I think mostly just the world is so incredibly deep.”
22 / belief
“The way in which people work will change in response — the Jupyter Notebook example I gave is, I think, a good example of that.”
23 / belief
“I think my appreciation for God has gone way up. I appreciate the construction of the religions far more than I did.”
24 / prediction
“The robot will take perfect footage. Whatever is there, the robot will send back to us.”
25 / uncertainty
“I don’t know whether, just as a practical matter, the United States is capable of doing this well.”
26 / belief
“I’m just saying that’s a potential outcome — I think quite a plausible potential outcome.”
27 / recommendation
“I think that’s why it’s very important not to have people who work for you — lots of 70-year-old physicists have 23-year-old students — but actually to have 23-year-olds, 28-year-olds who you really learn from and you regard as your mentors.”
28 / evaluation
“I think he didn’t really believe in them, or actually understand just how difficult they are to solve, how difficult it is to supply public goods and these kinds of things.”
29 / preference
“Almost always, as well, I will select for somebody who has at least one very strong skill which I do not have.”
30 / evaluation
“I think that’s much stronger than the economists believe — your overall view of the world and what’s important — but I don’t think it’s nearly as strong as Stapledon believed.”
31 / evaluation
“They don’t suffer like large organizations that have all kinds of bloat and all kinds of problems. So many of those problems are gone away there, partially because when you’re on a boat, it’s not so easy to empire build, like there are real reasons to trim fat.”
32 / evaluation
“I still don’t find that compelling, I think, because we’ve always known that there seemed likely to be fairly contingent facts about the universe.”
33 / prediction
“Where do you see the monopoly power evolving? Because it’s essential, I think, to predictions of the model.”
34 / evaluation
“Yes, you’re right again, it’s very attractive for a few years, but over 50 or 60 years, it’s terrible. I think that’s certainly part of the issue with quantum gravity.”
35 / uncertainty
“Whether or not this is going to eventually result in a diminished ability to build personal brands and then capture value from that, I don’t know.”
36 / preference
“I will look more closely. It’s part of the reason I will take notes. It is part of the reason why I do spaced repetition.”