Dwarkesh Podcast / episode intelligence
Speakers in the public record
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18 published records
01 / evaluation
“That we need more roads? But you can't have more roads in New York because if you build more roads, what are you going to do with the cars?”
02 / commitment
“Lehman Center for American History and the Jacques Barzun Professor Emeritus of History at Columbia University, where he has also shared the Department of History. We will be discussing Robert Moses.”
03 / belief
“I think a major difference between Robert Moses' time and our own was that historic preservation was as yet little known and little understood and little supported.”
04 / belief
“Jane Jacobs and I agree on a lot of things or did before she died a few years ago.”
05 / belief
“I think the book was flawed because I think Caro only looked at Moses's own documents and Moses had a very narrow view of himself.”
06 / belief
“Expanding the Long Island Expressway had an estimated economic value of $719 million”, which I think was Moses.”
07 / uncertainty
“If there's one person who's designing all the bridges, all the highways, all the parks, is something more possible that can be possible if like multiple different branches and people have their own unique visions? I don't know if that question makes sense.”
08 / belief
“I think of Moses as the polar opposite of Jane Jacobs. Think about what Jane Jacobs saw as important.”
09 / evaluation
“I guess if we take this kind of view and just care about progeny more, there's a part in the Power Broker where they're talking about the Cross Bronx Expressway through East Tremont and Moses is getting opposition from an elected official.”
10 / evaluation
“We can't say he's poor, but I think that Caro was right in saying that what Moses was after in the end was not sex and not money, it was Power.”
11 / evaluation
“Blow the damn roads to the black neighborhoods, build the expressway interchanges, my hometown of Memphis criss crossed with big streets, those neighborhoods gone. They're even more extensive in places like Memphis and Kansas City and New Orleans than they are in New York because New York builds relatively fewer of them.”
12 / evaluation
“One of the main criticisms that Caro makes is that Moses refused to add mass transit to his highways, which would have helped deal with the traffic problem and the car problem and all these other problems at a time when getting the right of way and doing the construction would have been much cheaper. He just refused to do that because of his dislike for mass transit.”
13 / evaluation
“I think Robert Caro deserves a lot of credit for doing research on Moses, his childhood, his growing up, his assertion that he's the most important person ever to live in and around New York.”
14 / evaluation
“I'm just saying that all these little things that you can come to about different neighborhoods and things like that. But I think Caro was right that Moses, the biggest builder of cities in the 20th century, the builder of the greatest city in the world, didn't like it.”
15 / evaluation
“I think The Power Broker was the best book I ever read and in broad strokes, it's correct.”
16 / evaluation
“There's a very arresting anecdote in the Power Broker where I think he's 71 and his daughter gets cancer and for the first time, he had to accept a salary for working on the World's Fair because he didn't have enough.”
17 / evaluation
“New York City simply won't work if you reduce the density or you get rid of underground transportation because it's all about people moving around underneath the streets and not taking up space as they do it.”
18 / recommendation
“You've got to adapt and you've got to have a hybrid model in the world now. And I think the model that America needs to follow is a model where we reduce our dependence on the cars and somehow ride buses more or use the internet more or whatever it is, but stop using so much fossil fuels so that we destroy our environment.”