Tyler Cowen

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.

And national security as a lobby, they don't care about tech per se, but it is meant that on a whole bunch of things in the future, you will get your way a bit more than you might be expecting.

But a key problem you have is so much of it is in one area, and it's also an area where there's a dominant political party, even within that political party, there's in many parts of California, a dominant faction.

And you compare yourself to the community bankers who are in so many American counties, have connections to every single person in the House of Representatives.

Your issues, in a way, are not very partisan.

The distortions you cause through your privileges are invisible to America.

It's not like Facebook, where some John Haidt has written some bestselling book complaining about what it is you do.