Tyler Cowen

They've been mostly destructive.

That's right.

That's a philanthropic fund.

And we now have slightly over 1,000 winners.

They're not all young.

I'd say they're mostly young.

And a great number of them want to go into the biomedical sciences or have done so.

And this is part of what made me realize what an incredible influx of talent we're seeing into those areas.

I'm not sure this is widely appreciated by the world.

I'm sure you see it.

I also see how much of that talent actually is coming from Canada, from Ontario in particular.

And I've just become far more optimistic about computational biology and progress in biology and medical cures, fixes, whatever you want to call it, extending lives.

10 years ago, I was like, yeah, who knows?

A lot of things looked pretty stuck.

Then we had a number of years where life expectancy was falling.

And now I think we're on the verge of a true golden age.

Well, the good news is this.

I'm in contact with young people almost every day, often from other countries.

They still want to come to the United States.

I would say I sign an O-1 letter for someone about once a week.