Tyler Cowen

“He's doing this stuff with Tyler or whatever, which is another nice example of sort of like downstream of the problem, figure out whatever.”

“Albert Hirschman's famous claim that the real problem with capitalism is it works so well, it becomes self-undercutting at some margin.”

“Dan Wong tells me it's much more pessimistic than it had been. He would be the source I would defer to.”

“There's only two people I've ever met in my life that I think have perfect taste in movies. And that's Nabeel and Scott Sumner.”

“I thought it was the best movie of the last 25 years... The scene where the ghost comes and sits down at the table. One of the greatest movie scenes of all time.”

“There's this funny race, approximately it's between obviously Anthropic and OpenAI, but it's a race that never ends. When you ask the question, when is this settled? When can we slow down? Maybe the answer is just never.”

“The AIs you really need to worry about are the Wall Street AIs, because they're not really taught to cooperate with humans. And the normal AIs that everyone talks about, they're just going to be like puppy dogs more or less forever.”

“I think my views and Patrick's views are actually pretty different. So when people say these two tech guys, like I'm not even that.”

“Tyler Cowen had this awesome talk about just like what's happening. The people that are doing best in this world — his term is initiative. They have initiative.”

“Tyler Cowen talking about how he's writing for the LLMs. And this whole thing is like, he wants the LLMs to know as much as possible about what he thought. So when he's gone... the LLMs know what I think about Iceland.”

“Most new jobs, in fact, will be things that very few individuals can think of in advance. But the market with wages and prices iterates with its own algorithms and solves that problem, creates new jobs.”