Tyler Cowen

And that can be mistaken for being well-cultured, but it's really quite different.

It's like a barbarian's approach to culture.

It's like a very autistic approach to being cultured and should be seen as such.

So I feel the French person is very foreign from me.

And there's something about America they might find strange or repellent.

And I'm just so used to it.

I see intellectually how many areas we fall flat on or are destructive.

but it doesn't bother me that much because I'm so used to it.

Well, if you look at the formal definition, it's all about deficits that people have, right?

Now, if you define it that way, like no one here is autistic.

If you define it some other way, which maybe we haven't been down yet, like a third of you here are autistic.

I don't insist on owning the definition.

I think it's a bad word.

It's like libertarian.

I would gladly give it away.

But there is like some coherent definition where a third of you here probably would qualify.

And this other definition where none of you would, and it's like kids in mental homes banging their head against the wall.

So I don't know, it seems that whole issue needs this huge reboot.

Well, I think you're getting a lot more influence than maybe you realize quickly through national security reasons.

So the feds have not stopped the development of AI, whatever you think they should or should not do, it's basically proceeded.