Conversations with Tyler / episode intelligence
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27 published records
01 / belief
“I think, for all of us, the idea that someone can do magic — if it’s done right, it’s very cool.”
02 / belief
“I learned that there’s a guy there whose name either I’ve forgotten or protecting by not giving his name.”
03 / belief
“I think there’s something illiberal in the human heart. I recently reread Orwell’s 1984, and what staggered me about it is that Orwell’s of two minds, and that’s the power of the book.”
04 / belief
“One thing I learned being on a jury — I learned close up, of course; this is part of the common wisdom about juries — is that juries bring to bear some assessments that are accuracy-independent moral views.”
05 / belief
“Speaking of liberals who aren’t always in the canon, I think Kymlicka is very good.”
06 / belief
“If I think about how immigration restrictions are enforced, I sometimes worry that liberal societies ultimately, at some margin, have to use illiberal means to keep out or deport immigrants.”
07 / belief
“I think the great liberal thinkers now who are younger may be in the social sciences.”
08 / belief
“There are ones that I think you were particularly interested in getting skilled people in who are completely amazing and can make our country more prosperous and ultimately lots more well-being — let them in.”
09 / belief
“Congratulations for that. This year, he has, I believe, five — maybe more — books out.”
10 / belief
“I think if it’s challenging for you and me to come to a long list of philosophers rather than economists, it might be just that their early career and what they’re going to look like when they’re mid-career is obscure.”
11 / belief
“I think the idea of AI trials looks very thinkable today. What role for the human overseer is TBD.”
12 / belief
“I think that the form of liberalism that is the origin of woke is Mill’s book on the subjection of women, which is one of the great liberal texts.”
13 / belief
“Esther Duflo is a great liberal thinker. She just moved to Zurich, I think, from MIT.”
14 / belief
“I think we should start with egregious cases where people are losing money or time without getting adequate clarity on that’s what’s happening to them.”
15 / belief
“I think the principal thing I learned is how he took standard songs that were classics and twisted them in directions that made them new, not only by doing things to the music, but also by taking words that had a certain meaning back then and giving them a different kind of meaning.”
16 / belief
“Dick York was better, but I saw recently an interview with Elizabeth Montgomery, I think — either she or someone who’s involved in the show — who said Dick York liked her a little more than was comfortable.”
17 / belief
“I think there’s a way of doing it that is more in sadness than in anger, though if people are committing crimes, of course, some anger isn’t a bad idea.”
18 / prediction
“Then they say it’s all protected by the First Amendment because it’s AI and humans, and de facto, you end up with complete AI First Amendment protection.”
19 / evaluation
“The idea that you can regulate a politician’s speech because AI played a significant role, or maybe the entire role — that’s very hard to defend.”
20 / evaluation
“I think we should say that AI is like a vacuum cleaner or a toaster, let’s say a speaking one.”
21 / evaluation
“One thing — I think I haven’t gotten this clear enough in my own mind — but one thing the woke left, let’s say, has gone wrong with — both in terms of strategy, but also in terms of how to be in the world — is a kind of arrogant — the word “shaming” is right — shaming of people who are deserving respect.”
22 / preference
“I don’t like it at all, but it pains me to say that because I really admire Waldron.”
23 / evaluation
“Parfit — some of the anti-individualist and anti-identity and self stuff, the stuff that looks illiberal and also looks brilliant but peculiar — I think he’s replicating the early research agenda of Kahneman and Tversky, coming up with very exotic cases and then asking himself what he and others think about them and then giving those things authority.”
24 / evaluation
“Instead, he basically reported, after obsessive work — I think two years of work — on the correspondence between Mill and Taylor, and the correspondence is one of the closest things we have to the fictional correspondence in my favorite book, which is Byatt’s Possession, where the letters are ones of surpassing beauty.”
25 / evaluation
“I think the liberal view is — this is something that some liberal thinkers, including Martha Nussbaum, have written about — there’s tragedy, and to recognize that tragedy is inevitable is a way of keeping an incentive to reduce the number and ferocity.”
26 / preference
“Sendhil Mullainathan, who is one of my favorite current thinkers — he’s not philosophically focused, but he’s just writing a paper now on behavioral economics, where agency is moving to the fore.”
27 / prediction
“Some liberals are very open to immigration. That tends to be the liberal tendency, but some people who believe in freedom and in the rule of law and in pluralism worry that excessive immigration can start undermining those things, partly because it might make pluralism not self-sustaining.”