Conversations with Tyler / episode intelligence
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31 published records
01 / belief
“I mean, I’m actually ashamed to think I haven’t thought about that when I’m ordering takeout, as I’m not really ordering what I think will actually travel well or hold up well.”
02 / belief
“I think her answer was very in keeping with the fact that her papers can tell you a lot about a very specific thing, but she was very careful about saying that it only gives you part of the story, and you have to be really careful about what you don’t know.”
03 / belief
“I did not get onto a plane and fly to Korea. Now, I would have had to have quarantined — I think there it was for two weeks.”
04 / belief
“First one: “From engineering, I learned to start with an outline and decide what I wanted to say and then write all the sections to meet my outline.”
05 / belief
“Then we have this major global issue that, at least in my mind, directly relates to some of the key points of tension in a broader libertarian ideology about the proper role of government and what restrictions we might take, short or long term, in order to let the government step in and handle certain problems.”
06 / prediction
“We can debate exactly when how many people will take the vaccine and so on, but it seems most of them are sustainable, or they would have closed by now.”
07 / commitment
“I expect that by the time you’re hearing this, I will know when, but at the moment, I don’t quite know exactly when.”
08 / belief
“I believe in intertemporal substitution: if you can, don’t do it for a year, but next year, go to twice as many games.”
09 / belief
“Instead, I think there’s been a lot of people who’ve gone down different rabbit holes that haven’t really been that fruitful or have involved very off predictions like, “Oh, this thing will be over with by the fall,” or something.”
10 / uncertainty
“There were some — I don’t know — CWT truthers who thought we had some agenda from holding it as long as we did.”
11 / belief
“Then I would say, weirdly, the episode performed decently, but John McWhorter — as I was looking through the stats, I was surprised.”
12 / belief
“Here’s what I suspect went on there. He is so available in the podcast forum that you don’t need to come to us.”
13 / belief
“Oh, I think that’s pretty random. It could be quite soon if it’s outdoors. It could just be someone I know and trust.”
14 / commitment
“I’m very willing to walk out, but I want to be in the theater again seeing a new release and not having to pay $100 to rent out the whole thing. But in the meantime, I will pay up, yes.”
15 / uncertainty
“I don’t know if I’m going to have any idea, but middle management — I don’t know.”
16 / belief
“I’m glad we had three, but COVID has been covered very heavily by me on Marginal Revolution, and I think whatever I have to say, people get there, and it changes so quickly.”
17 / uncertainty
“Natasha invited two of her Russian friends in a theater that seats 150. I’m like, “I don’t know these people.”
18 / uncertainty
“I’m going to ask you to channel your — I don’t know — your super forecasting abilities.”
19 / belief
“I think the downside of state capacity libertarianism is simply realizing there are some very nice features to not being surveilled all the time, as they do in China.”
20 / commitment
“I hope that you will be able to enjoy a theater and enjoy going to see movies with other people. I hope that we will be able to see each other face-to-face.”
21 / belief
“I think the big issue has been travel. If you have to travel, then it’s harder to do it safely.”
22 / evaluation
“I think the pessimistic case would be, one reason we were able to act so quickly on COVID is because it became this clear focal point where that was the thing to do, to figure out this problem.”
23 / preference
“As much as I would enjoy having Tyler read ad copy every episode [laughs], I think that would get old quickly.”
24 / evaluation
“I think that relates back to COVID, too, because in any dramatization of a pandemic, it is so focal.”
25 / evaluation
““I think music critics need to have command of neighboring cultural areas because music is not just separate from the rest of culture, from the rest of our world.”
26 / preference
“If that means I cook it, so be it. If that means eat outside when it’s cold, so be it, but eat food properly.”
27 / evaluation
“I did think, in March, we did the right thing by closing so many things so quickly because we knew so little and had to prepare hospitals and just figure out that you can do things outside.”
28 / preference
“I believe you said in your post that pickles were great because they’re always delicious, but you don’t overeat them.”
29 / preference
“I think just breaking off a piece of Whole Foods 365 sharp cheddar cheese has become my go-to quarantine snack.”
30 / recommendation
“When you’re stuck on something, you just do something else and don’t get stressed about it because you’ve got something else productive to do.”
31 / evaluation
“Jimmy Wales — I’m not sure it’s underrated, but I think precisely because he’s been successful and moderate and reasonable, Twitter doesn’t go crazy over him one way or another.”