Tyler Cowen

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2,016 appearances 10 recordings 1 series first heard Apr 2025 last heard 20 Jul

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TBPN · Tyler Cowen Doesn't Think America Should Ban Chinese AI Models · 20 Jul 2026 podcast

If you succeed, people will hate you.

Okay, but... You know, was it Malcolm Gladwell, Steve Levitt, Paul Krugman?

Whoever did well got hated.

Oh, yeah, that's right.

President Obama just built a monument.

Does anyone love him for it?

Now, I'm all for today's billionaires doing more to support art, music, libraries, whatever we all might come up with.

But I don't think it's going to make them loved.

I think it'll be more like sects than new religions.

So you could write your own version of Hindu sacred books or your own version of Shiite Islam with your own, you know, slate of who the true imams are or should be.

And we're just going to see proliferation.

Like for a while in history, we had a proliferation of different versions of the LDS church.

Different kinds of Mormons.

Some are still around.

And using an agent, you'll be able to whip up your own religion, I don't know, in less than a day, with rituals, sacred books, practices.

Most won't catch on, but if you will, they'll have a few hundred, a few thousand adherents.

That may sound trivial, but if half of 1% of the population does this, and some of these get some number of adherents, over time, the whole religious landscape looks quite different.

I think it will be more diverse and feel weirder and be less centralized in religious authorities.

I visited the Amish many times.

I admire what they've done, but it's possible because the surrounding society cross-subsidizes them.

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