Tyler Cowen - Talent, Collapse, & Pessimism of Sex

泰勒·考文 - 天赋、崩溃与性悲观的悲观主义

Dwarkesh Podcast

2022-09-28

1 小时 34 分钟
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It was my great pleasure to speak once again to Tyler Cowen. His most recent book is Talent, How to Find Energizers, Creatives, and Winners Across the World. We discuss: - how sex is more pessimistic than he is, - why he expects society to collapse permanently, - why humility, stimulants, & intelligence are overrated, - how he identifies talent, deceit, & ambition, - & much much much more! 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. You may also enjoy my interviews of Bryan Caplan (about mental illness, discrimination, and poverty), David Deutsch (about AI and the problems with America’s constitution), and Steve Hsu (about intelligence and embryo selection). Timestamps (0:00) -Did Caplan Change On Education? (1:17) - Travel vs. History (3:10) - Do Institutions Become Left Wing Over Time? (6:02) - What Does Talent Correlate With? (13:00) - Humility, Mental Illness, Caffeine, and Suits (19:20) - How does Education affect Talent? (24:34) - Scouting Talent (33:39) - Money, Deceit, and Emergent Ventures (37:16) - Building Writing Stamina (39:41) - When Does Intelligence Start to Matter? (43:51) - Spotting Talent (Counter)signals (53:30) - Will Reading Cowen’s Book Help You Win Emergent Ventures? (1:02:15) - Existential risks and the Longterm (1:10:41) - Cultivating Young Talent (1:16:58) - The Lifespans of Public Intellectuals (1:24:36) - Is Stagnation Inevitable? (1:30:30) - What are Podcasts for? Get full access to Dwarkesh Podcast at www.dwarkesh.com/subscribe
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  • to ask Brian about like early and late Kaplan and which ways are they not consistent?

  • That's the kind of friendly jab.

  • Okay, interesting.

  • Yeah.

  • Garrett Jones has tweeted about this in the past.

  • So like in the myth of the rational voter, education is so wonderful.

  • Like it makes you more free market.

  • Yeah.

  • And like, hey, it no longer seems to be true.

  • It was true from the data Brian took from.

  • And second, Brian doesn't think education really teaches you much.

  • So that's why he's making people free market, yes.

  • Yeah, like it once did, even though it doesn't now.

  • And if it doesn't now, it may teach them bad things, but like it's teaching them something.

  • I have asked him this, so he thinks that it doesn't teach him anything,

  • therefore, that woke-ism can be a result of colleges.

  • And then I've asked him, okay, at some point,

  • these were like ideas in colleges that they're in a broader world.

  • What do you think happened?

  • Why did it transition from one to the other?