Conversations with Tyler / episode intelligence
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41 published records
01 / belief
“I think the stir crazy aspect of this … Now you’re right, you suggested earlier that after six weeks, this might feel differently than it does now.”
02 / commitment
“The kind of average degree of online-ness may not change, but you’ll demand more from your face to face encounters and I won’t use my previous point again.”
03 / commitment
“I try to follow better people on Twitter, but even following better people, one sees quite a bit of this. But that said, I think we will have to make significant adjustments in a post-coronavirus world.”
04 / belief
“I’ve talked endlessly now on EconTalk, I’ve an episode coming up soon on this question of this challenge we have of the semi-free market, this weird market we have in pharmaceuticals that I think is poorly constructed.”
05 / uncertainty
“I don’t know if that’s still true, but I wouldn’t leap to the conclusion that it’s not.”
06 / belief
“Even though in the sense of my physical surroundings, it’s quite static. So I think that’s given me maybe an illusory sense of control, but it’s made it bearable for me.”
07 / belief
“Whether universities can successfully teach classes online, of course, is a struggle, but I think a lot of things are going to stay in place.”
08 / uncertainty
“For sure, I don’t know, but I’m pretty sure the debates I’m hearing are not sophisticated enough on this issue.”
09 / commitment
“Keep in mind we will have a pool of never infected people, which will be fairly large in absolute numbers and what risks we will be willing to take.”
10 / belief
“I think my background with thinking about economic growth is a significant reason why I think I’ve seen some of the dangers here coming.”
11 / belief
“I think the biggest problem that pundits, and I’ll put myself in that class on this level of conversation, I mean we just use words like bailout as if we know what we’re talking about or if it’s well specified.”
12 / belief
“I think the place where the biggest hole was bars and restaurants and the government did that.”
13 / belief
“You can walk around different parts of Virginia and see people intermingling at a large scale. We’re not really quite there yet in my view.”
14 / commitment
“We will have much more government intervention. It will be with right-wing toppings and flavor.”
15 / belief
“I think there are many things to be concerned about, but I think that the view it’s all Trump’s fault, that’s very dangerous, and it’s important to combat that.”
16 / belief
“I think we ought to be promoting that with great enthusiasm and we don’t need the government to do it.”
17 / belief
“I would say I’ve become much more pessimistic about our ability to respond to climate change, because what we’re seeing with coronavirus is how unwilling so many people are to act until the very last moment, if even that.”
18 / belief
“I’m not sure we have to, but I think the single biggest thing we can do to stop being there given that the tests are not in our labs at the moment is just for people to interact with others as little as possible.”
19 / belief
“If you simply set up a very credible board of a half-dozen people with real expertise to decide how to hand out, say, $50 billion, and you make sure there are people willing to write a check, like to a big, unpopular corporation, if that’s who’s done the good work, I think that’s what we should do.”
20 / belief
“I mean the whole crisis for me right now other than anxiety and worries about the future of the country and death of my loved ones who are even older than I am and other people’s loved ones, they main effect is that on Friday I impulsively went to Costco, which was better than Sunday I think.”
21 / belief
“Not public yet, so some of these you’ve you’ve heard of probably, but in any case I think the prizes will encourage more people and just generate attention for those who have done the right thing I think encourage them to do more because this is a marathon, not a sprint, and the people who have already done wonderful things or maybe some of the people more likely to continue doing wonderful things.”
22 / belief
“I think the 2000s were not nearly as bad as people think, by the way. It’s a separate matter, but they did not dent my optimism maybe as much as yours.”
23 / belief
“Again, if it’s a month or two, I think almost all of them can be kept on life support, and we could throw money at the problem, and then in two months just pick up the pieces and be the America we once knew.”
24 / belief
“I think there’ll be a huge wave of promiscuous sex once there’s the first break in the virus for instance.”
25 / belief
“If we underestimate what it allows us to do, but all I’m saying is that I think people like to hug and that’s not going to change.”
26 / belief
“Most of that optimism ended or I think around… It’s slowly starting to decline through the 2000s as events… maybe more, and I got older.”
27 / belief
“In terms of the expectations of sub quarantining and self isolation and things being closed. I think we’re going to get to see Tom Brady in a Tampa Bay Buccaneer uniform.”
28 / belief
“There is something to be said for some sectoral targeting here, but I think the political economy consequences of just letting all of those jobs go away are too dire and we would end up with much more government.”
29 / belief
“Not over two weeks, probably not over four weeks but over four or five months or longer. Then I think that’s a matter really of great concern.”
30 / commitment
“One possible silver lining of this cloud is we will respect scientists a lot more if they come through with some pretty big and significant development.”
31 / belief
“I think an advantage the American economy has… We have more big business than just about any other economy, or close to it, and big businesses will be much more stable than smaller ones, say, as you might find in Italy, but you mentioned universities.”
32 / evaluation
“I think any conversation about these matters has an irresponsible element, no matter how carefully you do it, and I take that very seriously.”
33 / prediction
“So which countries exactly will do how well? I would say we don’t know yet. I do think Taiwan and Singapore most of all, and then South Korea probably have had the best responses, but they are by no means in the clear.”
34 / prediction
“I do think the internet has helped influential people influence people’s behavior to be more worried about this, which I think is probably going to be a lifesaver for, I think, hundreds and hundreds of thousands of people.”
35 / evaluation
“The top down says everything’s closed and that means that there’s going to be enormous economic and human results from that, that we’re just sort of ignoring.”
36 / evaluation
“To a modest degree it’s because of government regulations, but mainly it’s because there’s equity capital in those companies and the shareholders want to keep the flight safe because they don’t want to lose their capital.”
37 / preference
“I think people have a great thirst for face to face and I don’t think Zoom is, I love Zoom.”
38 / prediction
“The etiquette of that’s going to evolve, but I don’t know how it’ll be. But I think increasingly people will put away their phones because they don’t want to be connected 24/7.”
39 / prediction
“There’s a lot of optimism out there, but I don’t think it’s a likely scenario that simply four or five months from now everyone is getting the vaccine and in essence the problem is vanishing.”
40 / prediction
“It will help them pay their rent, which will reduce that cascading worry that I mentioned earlier from the real estate developer I had talked to. That’s going to be, I think, extremely important in reducing the set of economic readjustments that you were more focused on than I was in the earlier part of the conversation.”
41 / evaluation
“I have a bit of a love-hate relationship with it, as my listeners know, because it can be a ugly sinkhole of attention, of acrimony, and other things, but I think for me, and I think for you as well, based on our pre-recording conversation, it’s a huge source of information.”