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Tyler Cowen says he chose between economics and philosophy as a career in the late 1970s.
“it was either economics or philosophy, and I saw back then this would be like the late nineteen seventies.”
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Tyler Cowen predicts that AI will raise annual economic growth by about half a percentage point.
“I think they will boost the rate of economic growth by something like half a percentage point a year.”
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Tyler Cowen says his book GOAT, about the greatest economist of all time, was written mostly for AI readers.
“the last book I wrote, you know, it's called G.O.A.T. Who's the greatest economist of all time? I'm happy if humans read it, but mostly I wrote it for the AIs.”
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Tyler Cowen estimates a call transcript alone would carry about 25% of the value of seeing the person in a talent interview.
“having only the transcript would be worth much, much less, I would say, if that's what you're asking. Yeah, it would be maybe 25% of the value.”
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Tyler Cowen says his portfolio is mostly diversified, heavily US-weighted mutual funds with no trading.
“it's a lot of diversified mutual funds with no trading, basically, uh, pretty heavily U. S. weighted, and nothing in it that would surprise you.”
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The host described economist Tyler Cowen's proposal that AI agents should be capitalized, with money attached so harmed parties can make claims.
“Another interesting idea from Tyler Cowen, that's kind of a market uh based solution, as he is inclined to propose, is agents should be capitalized.”
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