Conversations with Tyler / episode intelligence
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21 published records
01 / belief
“I wouldn’t call them restrictions on free speech, I think that’s the wrong phrase, but if one’s going to use the phrase that way, there are numerous restrictions on free speech within companies, at the work place.”
02 / belief
“I should have a much better answer for you, but I think just reading novels from non‑Western cultures, and I would consider 19th century British aristocracy to be sort of a foreign culture now, just can give you an idea of cultures other than our own.”
03 / belief
“” Now generally I agree with your characterization of the left as more worried about harm.”
04 / belief
“I would say you’re the person who’s done the most in a good way to improve the quality of that debate and to make campus life more tolerant or more open.”
05 / uncertainty
“I don’t know about economists but if it was psychologists or people in the humanities, you go into the conference and everybody is wearing a suit and tie.”
06 / belief
“There’s a big, big line between saying, “Brown or Yale should step in and tell people what they can’t — .” In general I think no, in general the idea — .”
07 / belief
“Given that we find the same problem in cancer research and biomedical research — in almost every field where it’s been looked at — I think that the replication crisis is very real.”
08 / belief
“The president is the high priest of the American civil religion — I think that’s what Robert Bellah called it.”
09 / belief
“I find this really disgusting. This is I think one of the reasons I’m so upset by what’s going on on campus, is that the certain group of activists decides that somebody’s going to come speak on campus, fine, if you want to stand up and protest outside and hold up signs, that’s fine.”
10 / belief
“The only caveat that I would put which I would say if they don’t do this soon, then they would be overrated, is the behavioral economics work is an example of this wonderful dictum from Robert Zajonc, the famous social psychologist, which is that cognitive psychology is social psychology with all the interesting variables set to zero.”
11 / evaluation
“Once it becomes left versus right over Obamacare, it doesn’t matter however good your arguments are, I’m not listening.”
12 / evaluation
“I think there are certain kinds that they can understand a little better, but it hasn’t really been studied well enough because everybody’s been focused on care and fairness as morality.”
13 / evaluation
“Many people try to say well all that really matters is care and compassion. But if you take that to its absurd extreme you get kind of close to what we have on campus, which is we will destroy anybody’s rights in order to protect these seven victim classes.”
14 / evaluation
“The most important finding in psychology in the last 50 to 100 years, I would say, is the finding that everything you can measure is heritable.”
15 / observation
“If I look at politics this year, what I see is we had almost all the pundits, thinking about Republican values, the Republican past, and seeing Scott Walker, Marco Rubio, Jeb Bush, and thinking some mix of those people would be the leaders, because they matched Republican values.”
16 / evaluation
“Things that clearly involve harm, violations of rights, there are certain things that are predisposed to be moralized, but the genius of human beings is because we’re so tribal, we can moralize anything that gets tabbed as being predictive of what group you belong to or being part of “them.”
17 / evaluation
“They don’t tend to do a lot with group loyalty and hierarchy. They tend to focus more on, “I’ll tell you what, you don’t hurt me, I won’t hurt you.”
18 / evaluation
“In fact they’re much more likely to rise economically than if they’re raised with any sort of family instability. So I think I’m more conservative about family arrangements, precisely because of these second- and third-level effects.”
19 / prediction
“” Basically I think a lot of students know is the way to get into a top school is show your social justice activism.”
20 / preference
“What I remember is just the idea of interpreting cultures as people are making symbols, we live in a rich symbolic world, a world of narrative, we need to interpret those, that I think is quite right, and that’s again what I love about cultural anthropology is it gives you a way of interpreting cultures.”
21 / observation
“Let’s say I’m a libertarian, and I notice, I suspect you would agree, that libertarians are somewhat overrepresented on the Internet, intellectual discourse, because of their personality traits which you’ve written about yourself.”