Conversations with Tyler / episode intelligence
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39 published records
01 / evaluation
“He’s helped us on our new YouTube channel because, as it turns out, a popular YouTuber appearing on your YouTube channel is very good for you.”
02 / belief
“I think I said once, “Gaurav, you’re either the most underrated unknown person or the most unknown underrated person.”
03 / commitment
“Also, I will say, I think almost all of the ones we mentioned were not top five, top 10 episodes by listener popularity.”
04 / belief
“I think people might neglect that one because there’s a lot of Cass out there, but they shouldn’t.”
05 / uncertainty
“Now, we’ll review most popular episodes later when we actually have the numbers, but in terms of your perception of underrated episodes, we don’t know what’s popular yet.”
06 / commitment
“We are going to end this part of the retrospective right here, but listener, never fear, we’re going to be right back.”
07 / belief
“Politically, Oman is never in the news. I would say, overall, that’s a good thing.”
08 / belief
“I’ve had some good food, but you don’t come here for the food, I would say that.”
09 / belief
“John is known in a few different groups of people, and I suspect that boosted him.”
10 / belief
“I think Scott is correct that the biggest problem in the Great Depression was the deflationary pressures.”
11 / uncertainty
“People don’t listen to it anymore. I don’t know why. It’s just fun. It’s super accessible, and it also feels and sounds different.”
12 / uncertainty
“I don’t know why, but that episode came in number seven. That was a very pleasant surprise for me.”
13 / belief
“The most classic work of fiction of the last 20 years, I would say. You can think of it as a work of non-fiction in a sense.”
14 / commitment
“I will not go through the rest of the list, but you do say the ones that you think are the best are Ashlee Vance’s book on Elon Musk.”
15 / uncertainty
“Good movie, but I don’t know. It feels like a tired theme by now. There’s plenty of movies about drug gangs and the like.”
16 / belief
“If it’s not their product, someone else will do the equivalent soon. You need a research paper in research paper format, I suspect.”
17 / belief
“I think one thing that has become more of a convention that people adopt is the super specific first question.”
18 / uncertainty
“Other than repeating the point that they ought to do that, I don’t know what else to say.”
19 / belief
“I think Eliezer, I’m guessing now, boy, it’s 15 to 20 years, he’s been saying this.”
20 / belief
“Caruana is very well-spoken and very thoughtful and philosophical. I think at some point we can get him.”
21 / commitment
“Now, I will say that ChatGPT immediately put the disclaimer on that it “can’t write as Tyler Cowen, but it will provide a crisp, economist-eye answer with a similar vibe.”
22 / belief
“Anyone who I think would be good at that. Many guests. Who has an interest in doing it, or maybe they don’t want to be interrogated themselves.”
23 / uncertainty
“A world where, say, people who have problems with paralysis can do very useful things through Neuralink, that’s not distant. The rest, I don’t know.”
24 / uncertainty
“I’m going to just wait till I feel they’re a bit settled with that. I don’t know how long that should be, and we’ll try again.”
25 / evaluation
“You could say it’s a minor achievement, but it was the best movie that year that I know of.”
26 / belief
“At some other level, I think their lack of trust in the method is reflecting a kind of insecurity about the arguments.”
27 / uncertainty
“Macbeth. I don’t know where that dialect comes from. Macbeth, this is the version starring Michael Fassbender, Marion Cotillard.”
28 / uncertainty
“Isn’t uncontrollable laughter in some ways a kind of displeasure? I don’t know, since I’ve never had it.”
29 / belief
“I think what also has changed, and we’re speaking the day after the election results, where the Democrats won a lot by more than expected, is this will motivate the Republican Congress to stand up to Trump more and be more resistant.”
30 / preference
“Jonny Steinberg was one of my favorite episodes. I thought all of his answers were deep and thoughtful, and it was good to focus on South Africa.”
31 / evaluation
“The old definition of AGI, that it’s just as good as human experts, is largely true. I don’t know if it was a shock.”
32 / evaluation
“I won’t say who, but out of the 36, whatever, I thought maybe three were not great, and the others were good through excellent.”
33 / recommendation
“I will say that it can definitely help brainstorm and find new guests and people who would be good for specific things, like who would be good for a live show.”
34 / prediction
“I think if I wrote a detailed prompt for GPT, in fact, it could. I just haven’t gotten to that yet.”
35 / preference
“It was good, but in general, I prefer to read Shakespeare rather than see it on the screen.”
36 / preference
“If I’m driving, I’m driving. I don’t like listening to podcasts while I drive or anything audio.”
37 / preference
“I will go to the gym if there’s no pool, but the pool to me is more than 5X more valuable than the gym.”
38 / preference
“The ones where it’s a single topic, I learned more from the prep because I know what to prepare.”
39 / prediction
“In fact, I think you could multiply this year’s good films by two and still have the worst year for movies in a long time.”