Barry Weiss
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first heard Dec 2024
last heard Mar 2025
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smarter than one of the smartest people I've ever met in my life. How do you contend with those questions?
After the break, Tyler Cowen and Jeffrey Cain on whether AI is going to become a new god, a new religion, plus tariffs. Stay with us. Last month, the Bank of Canada released this report explaining what the economic ramifications would be if Trump passed this 25 percent tariff on all goods coming out of Canada.
And what this big bank report came out with is that the Canadian GDP would decline by 6 percent. What the economist Stephanie Kelton did is she asked Deep Seek the same question. What would happen to Canada's GDP if Trump imposed the tariffs he had been threatening?
And she watched as Deep Seek reasoned through the problem and came up with basically the same conclusion in a matter of about 12 seconds. I mean, what's the point of these huge realms of the knowledge economy? Five years from now, Tyler, will all of that stuff, what will it look like? Will it go away? Who's going to win and who's going to lose?
No, I was asking more about Schadenfreude.
You're almost never petty, so I really enjoy it. Okay, let's talk about these tariffs, okay? So we're talking on Monday around 4.30 p.m. This is a story that's moving so rapidly that who knows, Canada might be the 51st state by the time this podcast comes out in a few days. But Trump has instituted these 25 percent tariffs against Mexico and Canada.
And guys, correct me if I'm wrong, 10 percent on China. Am I correct?
Okay. China, let's start there because that one is probably the most defensible and understandable. Jeff, where do you stand on that particular proposed policy?
Tyler, Chinese tariff, yay or nay?
All right, let's steel man it. Why is Trump doing this? What is the best possible argument? Why is Trump creating, putting China to the side, a trade war with our neighbors in Mexico and Canada?
There's sort of a larger historical question here, which is that in the sort of post-World War II era, and especially since the fall of the Soviet Union, the idea is like America's not supposed to go around bullying smaller, weaker countries.
And the U.S., you know, at least ostensibly as the guardian of the Pax Americana, the guardian of the world order, is especially not supposed to act like that. How are we hurting ourselves and our position in the world from going around sort of beating up allies like Canada and Denmark. What do you think that does for us, Tyler?
Okay, let's do a lightning round. Tyler, has anti-wokeness peaked?
What's the next culturally high status move? What should anti-woke now morph into?
Jeffrey, who is the best writer about China right now? Where do you get your news about China?
Tyler, what's your favorite province to visit or city or town or street to visit in China?
Tyler, who is the best writer about AI right now? What do you recommend that we all read?
I got to say that's a hard recommendation because Twitter is just so overrun with – I hate even using these words, but just poor information, low-quality information. How do I know who to follow?
Will we ever get to the utopian point where AI does all the work allowing all of us to exist on a permanent vacation, Jeff?
How will AI affect wealth inequality, something that a lot of people are really concerned about?
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