Conversations with Tyler / episode intelligence
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39 published records
01 / belief
“I think we blame Facebook and Twitter, conventionally, for it. But I don’t think that it’s necessarily just about the technological modes.”
02 / uncertainty
“I revisit the old stuff all the time. I don’t know. I haven’t thought that much about popular music.”
03 / belief
“I didn’t reach this level, but the managers who have to pick the other managers — they are doing something that must be, I think, really hard to even conceptualize, but must have incredible influence on the success of really big organizations.”
04 / belief
“I think the configuration would involve something like a very unpopular Republican administration being replaced with a very left-wing Democratic president who, for the demographic-balance reasons in Congress, doesn’t have majority support in the Senate, and who then faces a lot of pressure from his supporters to govern in extra-constitutional ways.”
05 / belief
“I am not a literary person on any level, but I think that a certain kind of social-realist fiction writing has become unfashionable and that applies to him and his books and also to my grandfather’s books.”
06 / belief
“People don’t know who they are or who does what — things like that — and trying to get a … Lenin said, “better fewer, but better,” which I think you could accomplish a lot with in local governments in the United States.”
07 / belief
“I think there’s a pretty good chance that Covid pushes it back toward more of that ’90s equilibrium.”
08 / belief
“I think we’re learning that there is stuff going on off the court that is impacting what we see on the court in a more clear way than we necessarily knew.”
09 / belief
“I think correctly rated. At this point, everyone with a brain sees LeBron for what he is, and he’s excellent.”
10 / belief
“Where would I short? I think definitely San Francisco, which is not just taking this Covid hit.”
11 / belief
“” Knowing that and being assertive, I think, has proven its value in the NBA over the past 10, 15 years.”
12 / belief
“I think not a lot of people know about Maine off the coast. Interior Maine and the North Maine Woods are really cool and great in a very different way from coastal Maine.”
13 / uncertainty
“If I put in my book that I think we should make people be more religious, I don’t know how I would do that.”
14 / uncertainty
“There is a big literature on comparative divorce law, which I don’t know well. But there are some systems across the states which discourage divorce.”
15 / belief
“I think Donald Trump is a poor role model in social and personal life, and that we should encourage elite high-profile people to talk about commitment and marriage and why it’s valuable — things like that.”
16 / belief
“I think most people do not pay attention to what the end of Anarchy, State, and Utopia actually says, or to some of his other books.”
17 / belief
“My view is this — that for reasons that are probably intrinsic and biological, women, on average, care more about the kids than the fathers do.”
18 / belief
“If I think of the very populous countries, I wouldn’t quite call them a wreck, but they’re much, much less well governed.”
19 / belief
“I’m not saying it’s not true, but that’s not something that I think about or situate myself with.”
20 / belief
“My main aspiration in writing that essay is to try to get people — American people — to be a little less mad at each other and to have a little bit more recognition of the extent to which there are structural issues in our governance that is making it hard for us to proceed and that it’s not all “Oh my God, what the hell is wrong with those people?” Because if problems arise, if something goes badly wrong, I think you want to say what they did after the Articles of Confederation, which is, “We need to change the rules here.”
21 / belief
“I think probably we say that religiousness is almost constitutive of right-wingy-ness, at least in some definitions.”
22 / belief
“If I think of the well-governed countries in the world, it seems to me that most of them are pretty small.”
23 / belief
“Democrats, I think, will probably beat Trump because people don’t think that’s what electing Biden would accomplish.”
24 / belief
“We’ve had some big advances in fracking, some promising advances in solar power, some other kinds of things like that. But the fundamentals of how we produce and use energy have driven a lot in the macro picture, and I think the news from the latter quarter, whatever it is, of the 20th century — on that front was just very disappointing, notwithstanding other things that might power growth forward.”
25 / belief
“Of course, sometimes people’s aspirations are wildly unrealistic, or they’re incompatible with each other, or something like that. But I think we know that a world in which most people have two or three children instead of one or two children is a perfectly plausible scenario.”
26 / belief
“I think having larger families is probably bad for women’s equality in the top 0.”
27 / belief
“In the book, you stress that American growth rates have been declining. You and I agree about that.”
28 / belief
“I think in terms of direct public provision of things is one way in which some of the small countries really suggest nonlibertarian solutions to problems that I don’t think is appropriate for America or would be for the future.”
29 / uncertainty
“I don’t know exactly how you would discourage divorce in a subsidy structure, but I’m open to it.”
30 / evaluation
“If I think of myself — when I analyze, say, Denmark or Singapore, I’m less libertarian than when I analyze America because I think their governments have a higher chance of succeeding at what they might set out to do.”
31 / evaluation
“I think community institutions are important, and in a practical sense, religious ones are what seems to really work for people.”
32 / evaluation
“I think you’ve seen, in some ways, the biggest YIMBY political successes in Oregon rather than in the Bay Area, and the people who work on that — they all say to me that the fact that the prices are not as high as they are in the Bay Area is helpful to them, that it becomes more comprehensible to people why new construction, new market-rate construction improves the market because it’s not so mindbogglingly out of reach for normal people.”
33 / observation
“I’m impressed, as I think a lot of people who are not hardcore anti-inequality folks, that Sweden has a high number of billionaires per capita despite a lot of social democratic policies.”
34 / evaluation
“I sometimes think, well, one reason that the governance standouts are small is that there’s more variance in the small countries because there’s a lot of them.”
35 / evaluation
“I was working on this book at an early time, and I was in Midtown Manhattan where even New Yorkers don’t go because it’s so terrible, and it’s full of people — I think full of people who would tell you nobody likes going to Midtown Manhattan, and there must be some reason for that.”
36 / recommendation
“I remember you wrote some time ago — I think in response to Bryan Caplan — that it’s look, if you care about immigration and you care about people’s ability to move, let’s maybe chill with the open-borders talk because you’re going to hit a hard political constraint, and the country’s going to lock down.”
37 / evaluation
“I think the idea of trying to turn the United States into a giant Denmark, where people are reasonably affluent, but there’s no really big-deal things happening here, like some guy who makes windmills.”
38 / prediction
“Now, I think people, on average, should become more religious, in part because that would encourage fertility.”
39 / observation
“Andrew Sullivan, I think, had a troll take where he was like, “How come none of these people talking about the sanctity of marriage are talking about revisiting no-fault divorce?”