Conversations with Tyler / episode intelligence
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51 published records
01 / belief
“I think younger women are more empathetic, and so maybe they’re able to pick up on the nuances of science fiction.”
02 / recommendation
“I use Claude quite a bit, and then I use ChatGPT, mostly for fact-checking, grammar, and how to pronounce words.”
03 / belief
“I think that there are a lot of life lessons in what is being discussed in the poems.”
04 / uncertainty
“Then, if I purchase certain things, if I buy a certain pair of shoes from Nike or go to a restaurant or fly United, I’ll own some of those stocks, too, so I try to build a portfolio that reflects me as a consumer. I don’t know if that’s true or not.”
05 / belief
“At least in Korea, it seems it’s about co-location and not about NIMBY. But if it’s Oakland, California, I suspect it’s mostly about NIMBY.”
06 / uncertainty
“Part of the Sequoia memo was like, “We don’t know how some of this application will be applied.”
07 / uncertainty
“Plants are intelligent, and here’s how geology works and okay, I’ve checked all my boxes. I don’t know.”
08 / belief
“People are really freaked by AI. I would say, on average, more people are freaked out than excited.”
09 / belief
“I think we’re trending toward greater passivity, where all kinds of outrageous things happen and no one protests, which to someone my age is quite extreme and unusual.”
10 / uncertainty
“I don’t know. For me — and I feel like it’s probably the same for you — books, I try to read as much as I can, especially print.”
11 / belief
“I think of celebrity as having peaked maybe in the 1980s. You have Eddie Murphy, you have Schwarzenegger, you have Madonna, Michael Jackson, and it was a thing.”
12 / belief
“I think there are a lot of really great resources. You all do a great job with that.”
13 / belief
“Then, I think there’s a lot of contagion, and it feeds on itself, and you get into the cycle where it’s self-validating.”
14 / belief
“I think that’s right. I’m not sure it’s going to serve that function, even if you think it should.”
15 / belief
“If people have negative feelings, I think their actual thoughts become worse, even though sometimes the negative feelings are justified.”
16 / belief
“I think something like that would be really great, where there’s this foundational place that you can go to get access to this stuff.”
17 / belief
“You see that with Gen X, I think, to a certain extent, just accepting elements of that status quo.”
18 / uncertainty
“I don’t know about have to. I have friends who are utopian geothermalists. I don’t feel I can evaluate that.”
19 / belief
“I suspect they’re in a position where they can afford it, but that they’re also not optimizing.”
20 / uncertainty
“Can you believe it? [laughter] I don’t know. I just think you can learn a lot from recent history, as you know, and so I spend a lot of time just reading fictionalizations of it.”
21 / belief
“Then, I think the US having lost relative status in the world — people may not be directly aware of it, but at some level, they sense it, and that makes people more negative.”
22 / belief
“I hope so too. I think right, now, a lot of people feel pretty bleak, more so than ever.”
23 / belief
“I get approached after events most of the time, and people often just thank me for simplifying economics. I think that’s the main thing.”
24 / uncertainty
“Productivity. I don’t know. Maybe. I haven’t really thought about that. I guess so.”
25 / belief
“Then, I think that adds on to these other negative events, and people become more emotional and just have worse ideas.”
26 / observation
“I look back, and I loved my professors there. But it’s interesting because when I graduated, I went out to work for Capital Group in Los Angeles, and the only way that I got in was through a blind résumé.”
27 / belief
“Historically, you see societies finding ways out, but if we knew the formula, I think we’d be out of it already, and we’re not out of it.”
28 / belief
“I think I’m bad at that. I have a lot of people that I can ask questions. Derek Thompson has been a big support over at The Atlantic; Conor Sen, also, at Bloomberg Opinion.”
29 / belief
“There is this one guy in Toronto — he’s been banned from the NBA. I suspect that’s tip of the iceberg.”
30 / belief
“To me, it’s a continuum, and it’s the events at any point in time that matter a bit more, but I think people disagree on these questions.”
31 / belief
“I think not only because of AI, just data centers, the demand for that will go up a lot.”
32 / belief
“I think I’m a very good person at compartmentalizing. But you think it does drive you crazy.”
33 / belief
“I think the overall composition of the federal budget — it’s too much to old people and not enough to young people, and that is because old people vote more.”
34 / belief
“Now, book sales are fine. I think romance right now is the most sharply growing category.”
35 / uncertainty
“More and more, I’ve tried to just riff, have it be more stream of consciousness. I don’t know if that works.”
36 / belief
“Conor Sen has a theory on this, where he thinks that because millennials and Gen Z can’t afford homes, they’re gambling on crypto and meme stocks, and I think I can see that.”
37 / belief
“I don’t spend as much time on it, but I know that the volatility metrics are pretty useful, and I think that there are interesting things that you can do, like combinations of calls and puts on.”
38 / belief
“From the point of view of this New Jersey boy, she has come out of nowhere from western Kentucky and is all of a sudden one of the best and also most popular discussers of economics and economic reasoning and economic thinking. This, in my view, is fantastic.”
39 / belief
“I think there was some concerted effort to adjust the timing of the arrival of the vaccinations before the election.”
40 / belief
“I think there’s definitely a young-person audience that I pull from. Every day I get hundreds of comments from people telling me their own personal experience, what they’re going through.”
41 / belief
“I think that’s quite interesting because, with people trying to figure out religion, I think there’s more tendency to have cult-like tendencies.”
42 / evaluation
“An influencer is somebody who’s going to be your “best friend,” somebody that you tune into every aspect of their lives, and they give you access to every aspect of their lives. I think that far supersedes everything that we’ve ever gotten from a celebrity.”
43 / evaluation
“” I think that you see a total disconnect in the market right now between any sense of fundamentals.”
44 / evaluation
“There’s more intentionality, I think, with the platform design, versus TikTok just wants to keep you scrolling and scrolling and scrolling.”
45 / prediction
“I think a lot of people are frustrated with their economic situation, and so they look at TikTok videos, and somebody is telling them that, yes, Blackrock is conspiring against them, and that’s very soothing.”
46 / preference
“In my experience, most sales things, especially something like that, people just want you to listen to them.”
47 / evaluation
“There are studies showing that building more doesn’t reduce the value of a home, but I think you’re fighting an uphill battle with housing because we tell people that this is the ticket to the American dream, and then also just don’t have enough of it because of that.”
48 / preference
“I have no paywall. And I think just really objective stories — I really like what Semafor does, where they tell a story, and then they say where the reporter’s bias might be.”
49 / prediction
“I don’t know if this plan would make a lot of money, but I think there’s a lot of need for foundational resources on media sites, which a lot of them do have access to.”
50 / recommendation
“That was my first foray into internet writing, and it was enjoyable. I wouldn’t recommend it, but I learned a lot about how markets function.”
51 / evaluation
“I think success is an end state here where I don’t know if I’ll ever reach it. For me, it’s more of a process than I’d like.”