Tyler Cowen — Hayek, Keynes, & Smith on AI, animal spirits, anarchy, & growth

泰勒·柯文——哈耶克、凯恩斯与亚当·斯密论及人工智能、动物精神、无政府状态与增长

Dwarkesh Podcast

2024-01-31

1 小时 42 分钟
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It was a great pleasure speaking with Tyler Cowen for the 3rd time. We discussed GOAT: Who is the Greatest Economist of all Time and Why Does it Matter?, especially in the context of how the insights of Hayek, Keynes, Smith, and other great economists help us make sense of AI, growth, animal spirits, prediction markets, alignment, central planning, and much more. The topics covered in this episode are too many to summarize. Hope you enjoy! Watch on YouTube. Listen on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or any other podcast platform. Read the full transcript here. Follow me on Twitter for updates on future episodes. Timestamps (0:00:00) - John Maynard Keynes (00:17:16) - Controversy (00:25:02) - Fredrick von Hayek (00:47:41) - John Stuart Mill (00:52:41) - Adam Smith (00:58:31) - Coase, Schelling, & George (01:08:07) - Anarchy (01:13:16) - Cheap WMDs (01:23:18) - Technocracy & political philosophy (01:34:16) - AI & Scaling Get full access to Dwarkesh Podcast at www.dwarkesh.com/subscribe
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  • This is a fun book to read

  • because then you just mentioned in there what the original source is to read to you You know,

  • it's like it's like the herald bloom of economics, right?

  • You just like it's a book written for smart people Okay, so let's just jump into it.

  • Okay,

  • the book we're talking about is Goat who is the greatest economist of all time and why doesn't matter?

  • All right, let's start with Keynes.

  • So in the section in Keynes You quote him I think talking about Robert Marshall Alfred Marshall?

  • Oh, sorry, Alfred Marshall.

  • He says, the master economist must possess a rare combination of gifts.

  • He must be a mathematician, historian, statesman, philosopher.

  • No part of man's nature or his institutions must lie entirely outside his regard.

  • And you say, well, Keynes is obviously talking about himself.

  • Because he was all those things, and he was arguably the only person.

  • who was all those things at the time.

  • He must have known that.

  • Well, you know what I'm going to ask now.

  • So what should we make of Tyler Cowan citing Keynes using this quote?

  • A quote that also applies to Tyler Cowan.

  • I don't think it applies to me.