Conversations with Tyler / episode intelligence
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32 published records
01 / evaluation
“One underrated episode was Masaaki Suzuki because most people don’t know enough about Bach to really love what he said.”
02 / belief
“I would say, look, you’ve got [Thomas] Hardy’s marriages, why they fell apart, couples counseling.”
03 / recommendation
“I read Project Hail Mary a year or two ago. I thought that book was excellent.”
04 / recommendation
“I like the Christopher Kirchhoff episode and how he never said the word “um.” You might edit out an “um” here and there.”
05 / belief
“We’ve got Tooze and Kotkin on there. Tooze was on, I think, in 2020. Other books that you mentioned — there are probably maybe 30 books listed here, but we have Piketty.”
06 / belief
“Someone said on Twitter recently that — it was Joe Lonsdale — “There’s no limit to what you can achieve if you’re willing not to get much credit for it.” I think that should be our attitude.”
07 / uncertainty
“I don’t know which one I meant, but again, I’ve never regretted seeing a single Godzilla movie in my entire life.”
08 / belief
“” You’ve had a number of posts where you say that the idea that people — I think, correct me if I’m wrong, but the way I would summarize you is, you think it’s without evidence, installing bike lanes and these things — that the ROI is not there to you.”
09 / belief
“I think I’m just guessing here, but Marc Andreessen is always a good pick to be a top download.”
10 / belief
“I sent out an email to our newsletter about this, and I think you have to say it’s a little predictable. It only gets maybe a little eclectic towards the end, but this was very much fan service, I think, these top five.”
11 / belief
“We’ve made bets on them. But if you just ask me what I think, I do think there’s an upper limit that is more or less at where the oldest living people live to today, which is about 110 perhaps.”
12 / belief
“I agree with that, but it matters less to me. And I guess he’ll never be a guest on this show now.”
13 / belief
“Someone asked about Magnus. We’ve gotten very close, I think in front of him, I think he’s seen it.”
14 / uncertainty
“Kyla Scanlon? I don’t know. After that, it’s hard for me to say. Nate Silver, I guess, would be my guess.”
15 / belief
“I think you commented at the time, it was more difficult than it should have been to get him the money when you supported him.”
16 / belief
“One should be an empiricist, and I think bike lanes are, by the people I come into contact with, very much overrated.”
17 / belief
“I’m biased, but I think extremely well, and I think that was a great year for many things.”
18 / belief
“I learned more from doing those people. Say when I did Joseph Stiglitz, I had already read his major pieces, indeed many of his minor pieces over the years.”
19 / commitment
“As long as I can. As long as there is history to follow, I won’t be bored. I’m not worried about that.”
20 / belief
“Just on a production level, I appreciate Nolan’s — I think you’re underrating the craftsmanship of those films.”
21 / belief
“Now, starting with nonfiction, there are a lot. There are way too many, I think, to go by one by one.”
22 / uncertainty
“I don’t know this one by name either, but this starred Bill Hader and Kristen Wiig.”
23 / evaluation
“It’s the funniest CWT episode of all time, I think. She’s the one who’s funny, not me.”
24 / preference
“” I think Peter typically is the most downloaded episode for many people, and that’s my pick.”
25 / preference
“If you send me one that is serious in taking all the costs into account, including the cost of the land, I will read it and indeed review it. But some kind of partial, “Oh, here’s a few people who are better off because we put bike lanes in,” I’ll look at it, but no, I’m not going to review that.”
26 / evaluation
“He does not have enough money to complete his house, which is a big problem for him. They’re back on their feet, but it’s very tough, and tourist demand for the business he wanted to create has not materialized because of the war.”
27 / evaluation
“Implicitly, it’s the people we don’t ask, because we don’t have an in with them or we don’t know how to reach them, that would raise that failure rate higher.”
28 / evaluation
“I think there’s some way in which there’s just too much on the screen, and it’s not properly cinematic somehow.”
29 / prediction
“To get to the point where large numbers of people who buckle their seat belts live well into their 90s, I expect we’re on the way to doing that right now.”
30 / preference
“I would say — but just to name some of the ones that do include your names, I love Cowenauts; that just rolls off the tongue.”
31 / prediction
“The predictions I made in my book Average Is Over, that AI would be the next big thing and it would all be about how well can you work with AI — that’s done very, very well.”
32 / recommendation
“I am very excited. I read Project Hail Mary a year or two ago. I thought that book was excellent.”