Tyler Cowen — Hayek, Keynes, & Smith on AI, animal spirits, anarchy, & growth

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January 31, 2024

Duration

1h 42m

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Dwarkesh Podcast

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📝 EPISODE DESCRIPTION

It was a great pleasure speaking with Tyler Cowen for the 3rd time. We discussed how Hayek, Keynes, Smith, and other great economists help us make sense of AI, growth, risk, human nature, anarchy, central planning, and much more. The topics covered in this episode are too many to summarize. Hope you enjoy! 𝐄𝐏𝐈𝐒𝐎𝐃𝐄 𝐋𝐈𝐍𝐊𝐒

• Transcript: https://www.dwarkeshpatel.com/p/tyler-cowen-3
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𝐓𝐈𝐌𝐄𝐒𝐓𝐀𝐌𝐏𝐒 00:00:00 - John Maynard Keynes 00:17:16 - Controversy 00:25:02 - Friedrich von Hayek 00:47:41 - John Stuart Mill 00:52:41 - Adam Smith 00:58:31 - Coase, Schelling, & George 01:08:07 - Anarchy 01:13:16 - Cheap WMDs 01:23:18 - Technocracy & political philosophy 01:34:16 - AI & Scaling

🎤 SPEAKERS

• Dwarkesh Patel

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• Tyler Cowen

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🧾 EPISODE SUMMARY

In this episode of Dwarkesh Podcast, featuring Dwarkesh Patel and Tyler Cowen, Tyler Cowen — Hayek, Keynes, & Smith on AI, animal spirits, anarchy, & growth explores tyler Cowen Ranks the GOAT Economists, Markets, AI, and Anarchy Tyler Cowen discusses his book GOAT, using Keynes, Hayek, Smith, Mill and others to probe how great economists thought about investment, risk, markets, and institutions.

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