Tyler Cowen

I think compared to his time, we have much more individuality, most of all in the Bay Area.

That's a good thing.

I worry, the future with AI, that a kind of demoralization will set in, in some areas.

I think there'll be full employment pretty much forever.

That doesn't worry me.

But what we will be left doing,

what exactly it will be and how happy it will make us.

Again, I don't have pessimistic expectations.

I just see it as a big change.

I don't feel I have a good prediction.

And if you don't have a good prediction, you should be a bit wary and just like, oh, okay, we're gonna see.

But, you know, some words of caution are merited.

Well, I haven't interviewed that many scientists, like Ed Boyden would be one, Richard Prom, the ornithologist from Yale.

Those are very hard preps.

I think those are two excellent episodes, but I'm limited in how many I can do by my own ability to prepare.

I like the most doing historians because the prep is a lot of work, but it's easy, fun work for me.

And I know I always learn something.

So now I'm prepping for Steven Kotkin, who's an expert on Stalin and Soviet Russia.

And that's been a blast.

I've been doing that for like four months, reading dozens of books.