Conversations with Tyler / episode intelligence
Speakers in the public record
Claim mix
Evidence policy
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Claim ledger
13 published records
01 / recommendation
“I loved the intricacy of Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy by John le Carré, the subtlety of the emotions and the manipulation of the emotions in this spy story.”
02 / belief
“What’s your favorite performance of Clarence White with the Byrds, which song? For me, it’s “Have You Seen Her Face,” I think.”
03 / commitment
“Maybe it did, relative to what growth would’ve been in the absence of the internet. It’s also possible that it will have an effect on output that we won’t see for 10, 20 years.”
04 / evaluation
“” I’m really opposed to these long-list policy exercises because it tends to become this political thing.”
05 / evaluation
“I think that the problem in higher ed is that the institutional incentives don’t provide the kind of training that would maximize the opportunities for the students or, for that matter, maximize outcomes for the nation.”
06 / prediction
“I think the general-purpose technology has been a useful way to distinguish a type of innovation that you could think of as being aligned along a continuum.”
07 / evaluation
“We’ll need more than one dimension to really characterize different economies. But all of that said, I found, at least when I started to think about problems — which is really the best test of a theory — that I needed a different theoretical apparatus to think about, say, the challenge in Tanzania than the challenge in Germany.”
08 / recommendation
“Humans that are well trained are the inputs into this discovery process. And there’s big opportunities still, I think, to do a better job of investing in people.”
09 / commitment
“Actually, at one point, I wrote a paper called “Thinking and Feeling” that was really my first venture into trying to say, “We have some sense of why growth is possible and what could determine the long sweep of history.”
10 / evaluation
“He was very thoughtful about that and had a much more sophisticated sense about how science proceeds than the positivist sort of machine that people describe. But one of the joys of reading — that’s not a novel — but one of the joys of reading, and to me slightly frightening thing, is that there’s so much out there, and that a hundred years later, you can discover somebody who has so many things to say that can be helpful for somebody like me trying to understand, how do we use abstraction?”
11 / prediction
“I think his reputation is growing. And YouTube is a big part of this because you can find a surprising number of videos or recordings of Clarence playing.”
12 / prediction
“That may give you a less optimistic answer than, say, the initial take I had. But it may still be the case that we can have growth, that we can sustain it partly by having more and more people go into something like research because there’s 10 or 11 billion people we’ll end up with, and we can increase the fraction of people who go into that.”
13 / evaluation
“” Because of the norms that evolve in these conditions of inequality, I think that is going to prove to be a very damaging approach for both the migrants who arrive and the people in the existing society.”