Conversations with Tyler / episode intelligence
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34 published records
01 / uncertainty
“I suspect the one with Jonathan GPT Swift was either the most or the least listened to, but I don’t know which.”
02 / belief
“I think you were also doing a dive more into Israel at the time, as you were wont to do.”
03 / belief
“” Just like we didn’t get to chat with Charlie Munger in time, though he’s far more, I would say, closer to truth than Chomsky is.”
04 / uncertainty
“The Z one — I don’t know if watching it would hold up well, but part of it is this story about killers scaling a fence, and we should rewatch it and see.”
05 / uncertainty
“I don’t know if you’ve invented a new genre there, but the reason this came up is, you spoke positively of a book called Lives of the Wives: Five Literary Marriages.”
06 / belief
“We had an interview scheduled with Charlie Munger in January of 2024. His birthday, I believe, is in December.”
07 / belief
“Warren Buffet is not that far behind Munger. I think he’s in his early 90s. I’m not sure on that.”
08 / belief
“GPT Swift I think was just middling, so it was not an underperformer, but it certainly didn’t overperform.”
09 / belief
“I did many other podcasts this year. They tend to blur together in my mind. I don’t even know anymore which are the favorites.”
10 / uncertainty
“I don’t know to what extent there’s an ability for it to have that contextual awareness of, this is a more serious, grave matter.”
11 / belief
“There’s definitely a lot on this list. I think that we also got feedback, especially in the second half of the year.”
12 / belief
“I think the fundamental innovation is not GOAT per se, but writing from the perspective of a fan.”
13 / belief
“I think in less than two years. Now, whether that’s a product on the market that I can subscribe to, I’m less sure of, but technologically speaking, it’s probably possible right now.”
14 / commitment
“Open source I’ve played around with, but I’m not using it yet on a regular basis, but I will be once there’s open service fine-tuned on what I want it to have read.”
15 / belief
“I think he might’ve done one with us two or three years earlier, but it didn’t interest me.”
16 / belief
“I think in this case, the professor was mentioning that it’s hard to pinpoint, sometimes, a specific book to do a bunch of readings.”
17 / belief
“Confessions of a Sociopath, people should still read. Sociopaths are underrated, I think, is a key point of that one.”
18 / belief
“I think the success of The Ringer has shown that that thing is really enticing, when you hear people come to it from deep appreciation and enthusiasm.”
19 / uncertainty
“Favorite music — you say these are favorites from a radically incomplete sampling, not a best-of list, which I don’t know that you usually put that qualification on there, but you did this time.”
20 / belief
“Thinking about Google Glass, you were not a fan of it. I think you found it just hard to use.”
21 / belief
“I think, actually, it would be totally fine as we were originally doing, where we just took an episode of Conversations with Tyler and said, “Here you go.”
22 / belief
“The Days of Fire — I am tired of all that stuff, so people don’t talk about that time so much anymore, which is interesting. But overall, I think my 2013 recommendations might have been my best year ever of recommendations because so many of them turned out so well.”
23 / belief
“I think if you were looking for criteria, they would have to have critical success, commercial success, longevity.”
24 / belief
“Most authors are running away from it. I think we should run toward it and embrace it.”
25 / preference
“Yes. Ideally, a podcast, I think, should be once every day. That’s not possible for a number of reasons, but there is something socially optimal about that: that you wake up in the morning and you know there’s a podcast for you, and you only listen, say, to the 11 a year you care about the most, but that will be a different 11 for every person.”
26 / evaluation
“Hello, everyone, and welcome to the special episode of Conversations with Tyler. This is the 2023 retrospective, where we take a look back at the previous year in conversations, look back at Tyler’s pop culture picks from 2013, and other topics besides.”
27 / prediction
“I think the price of energy is going to go up a lot because people will need to compute, and they’ll be building all these new projects, and that’s a good thing.”
28 / evaluation
“At the end of the year, in resonance, maybe, with 2023, the movie Her came out, and you were a big fan of it. It came out after you released your best-of, but that movie, I think, has held up really well, and people are returning to it now because it feels like it got some things right.”
29 / recommendation
“On the second trip, my view of Sri Lanka changed a good deal, and I recommend it highly as a vacation spot.”
30 / preference
“I think one of the things he and I have in common is, we’re both quite keen to get other people more excited about appreciation.”
31 / recommendation
“You can access it through GPT-4 or just read it like a regular book, or interrogate a GPT-4-based app that you helped build and oversaw the construction of, and ask it to summarize chapters, ask it for more background, ask it what mistakes it thinks I made.”
32 / preference
“What I’ve already started doing is, I do more personal appearances and give more talks because I think simply writing isn’t good enough anymore.”
33 / recommendation
“I think clear number one pick, Lazarus Lake. If you haven’t listened to that one, check it out; it’s really good.”
34 / evaluation
“For a lot of people, I think that’s why Tom Hanks is still a top contender for GOAT in terms of actors today — because just the skill of being able to go through this range of emotions and portray it so realistically, he gets all these little nuances of it exactly right.”