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All of those make sense to me.
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30 Mar 2026 |
Tyler Cowen appeared on the Conversations with Coleman podcast, published by 2026-03-30.
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26 Mar 2026 |
The last chapter of Tyler Cowen's new generative book is about how AI will revolutionize the sciences.
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26 Mar 2026 |
Tyler Cowen published a new "generative book" that he says was fully written by himself.
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25 Mar 2026 |
Tyler Cowen held a Conversations with Tyler episode with Paul Gillingham, published by 2026-03-25.
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25 Mar 2026 |
Tyler Cowen's conversation with Paul Gillingham was mostly about Mexico.
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23 Mar 2026 |
At no point in Project Hail Mary did the alien (or human) think "undetached rabbit part."
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23 Mar 2026 |
But then again, do we know?
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18 Mar 2026 |
Tyler Cowen held a Conversations with Tyler episode with Harvey Mansfield, published by 2026-03-18.
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16 Mar 2026 |
Tyler Cowen's planned conversation with Toby Wilkinson has ancient and Ptolemaic Egypt as its topic.
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5 Mar 2026 |
Yes the new models are very very good.
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4 Mar 2026 |
Tyler Cowen said he was pretty sure new schools would make up below 1%, or certainly below 2%, of higher education.
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4 Mar 2026 |
The United States of all countries can attract high quality immigrants better than anywhere else.
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4 Mar 2026 |
The World Bank will not vanish but will become much smaller.
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4 Mar 2026 |
Maybe 40 years later, everyone will accept that it is all the AIs, though it will have come about by trick.
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4 Mar 2026 |
I don’t think our history is one of checks.
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4 Mar 2026 |
Every generation feels that way, though they won’t admit it.
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4 Mar 2026 |
And I’m not in a big panic about that.
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4 Mar 2026 |
The AI revolution will be the fastest of all technological revolutions in recent world history.
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4 Mar 2026 |
Political assassination has already made a big comeback.
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4 Mar 2026 |
But the best theory I have is simply that with birth control, most women don’t want that many kids.
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4 Mar 2026 |
In the university sector there are some startups, but they are not significant.
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4 Mar 2026 |
People talk like this now.
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4 Mar 2026 |
Cowen said he thinks that within ten years the US will be bidding for immigrants, be much more selective, use more market mechanisms and use immigration to raise revenue.
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4 Mar 2026 |
The Trump administration is already taking steps toward selling or pricing immigration access, though at too high a price.
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4 Mar 2026 |
A large number of assistant deans have been hired at universities in the last 15 years.
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4 Mar 2026 |
If they have life, it won’t be super intelligent.
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4 Mar 2026 |
An excellent session with plenty of fresh material.
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Cowen said his best expectation, offered with some hedging, is that France will eke through.
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4 Mar 2026 |
Cowen would bet 60/40 that there is life on the moons of Saturn, though he said it would not be life like us.
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4 Mar 2026 |
NATO will probably morph into something quite different, and whether it survives on paper depends on the US.
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4 Mar 2026 |
But to think Mexico could grow at 3% again is not utopian.
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4 Mar 2026 |
AI and tech companies and the US government will become increasingly intertwined, with neither checking the other.
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4 Mar 2026 |
There will be many more fake jobs in the economy in future.
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4 Mar 2026 |
US healthcare spending will eventually reach 30% of GDP or higher.
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4 Mar 2026 |
The best attempt I have, which maybe is not very good, is to think that ultimately, it’s about the spread of birth control.
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4 Mar 2026 |
AI decision-making will take hold whether or not people accept it, happening by trick if they do not.
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4 Mar 2026 |
I would say that the Second Industrial Revolution was the more important one.
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4 Mar 2026 |
I think it’s gone great.
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4 Mar 2026 |
The human body cannot survive very well on other planets, other moons, or in outer space.
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4 Mar 2026 |
because I don’t think birth subsidies have been effective.
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The nonprofit sector will have fake jobs for a very long time to come, and probably many more of them.
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4 Mar 2026 |
I think we’re better off if those countries develop more.
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4 Mar 2026 |
People just don’t like change that much.
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Wealth will not be held only by a small group; there will be a lot of wealth for everyone, though the small group will be much wealthier.
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4 Mar 2026 |
But technological progress means you trade in one set of problems for another.
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4 Mar 2026 |
I don’t feel my advice is that influential.
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4 Mar 2026 |
So I think the norm is that new technology comes and people are tricked.
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4 Mar 2026 |
I’m not at all pessimistic on the job front.
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4 Mar 2026 |
I’m very struck by this recent conflict between Thailand and Cambodia, which is a nothing burger, but I think people are making a mistake…
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4 Mar 2026 |
Frankly, I’m not worried about the inverted pyramid per se.
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4 Mar 2026 |
The supply of people wanting to immigrate to the US will dry up, due to lower birth rates elsewhere and improving source countries.
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4 Mar 2026 |
But at the end of the day, I think myopia still will rule.
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4 Mar 2026 |
Whatever predicts political violence, I don’t think it’s hard times, per se.
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Most Americans outside border areas do not feel they are losing their country, even if they think immigration is too high.
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4 Mar 2026 |
The World Bank seems weaker in relative terms, more displaced by private capital markets.
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4 Mar 2026 |
India and Africa would probably be the next waves.
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4 Mar 2026 |
Yeah, there’s too many nuclear weapons out there, for one thing.
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4 Mar 2026 |
And fewer people are worse than more people: it’s less innovative, right?
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4 Mar 2026 |
Africa has and will have a lot of talent, but the US has a history of race relations or that might be a complicated decision.
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4 Mar 2026 |
And older voters, I think they’re in a way more cynical and less ideological.
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Cowen said he was worried a bit about the inverted population pyramid, but thinks AI will provide enough of a productivity boost that it "won't bankrupt us."
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4 Mar 2026 |
Mainly what they have done is tricked people.
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4 Mar 2026 |
World War two is very decisively settled. That’s quite rare in history.
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4 Mar 2026 |
My greatest concern is simply this: even if all the effects are positive, when you introduce big changes into a world that is used to…
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4 Mar 2026 |
Hungary's birth subsidies boosted its birth rate for a while, before it fell back.
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4 Mar 2026 |
Things will be pushed through for somewhat myopic reasons, such as the need to outpace China (which might even be true), and that will be the selling point.
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4 Mar 2026 |
AIs will build their own institutions rather than a new UN or Bretton Woods.
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4 Mar 2026 |
Hungary spent up to 5% of its GDP on birth subsidies.
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4 Mar 2026 |
The US will keep increasing its healthcare spending.
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4 Mar 2026 |
For the US, immigration has gone better because we can attract more high-quality immigrants whenever we want to.
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4 Mar 2026 |
I don’t see why voters would want that.
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4 Mar 2026 |
The Apollo program was a big trick.
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And now there are many 80-year-olds who are more dynamic than a typical 60-year-old might have been, say, in 1972.
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4 Mar 2026 |
Well, they’re selfish!
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4 Mar 2026 |
The US will remain a nation of immigrants.
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4 Mar 2026 |
mostly they were a wreck.
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4 Mar 2026 |
So the older voters have extreme power now.
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4 Mar 2026 |
I agree with that reason. I’m just not sure it will change practical life that much.
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4 Mar 2026 |
But there’s scarcity for a long, long time to come.
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4 Mar 2026 |
I have a messy job, by the way. I’ll be fine.
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4 Mar 2026 |
They’re not actually going to be happy at all the changes that will bring.
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4 Mar 2026 |
Well, higher education is the easiest example.
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4 Mar 2026 |
I’m sure it’s super wasteful and full of political rant seeking, but at the end of the day, there’s some modest value in it.
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4 Mar 2026 |
Solved is never quite the word.
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4 Mar 2026 |
Tyler Cowen held a literary Conversations with Tyler episode with Henry Oliver, published by 2026-03-04.
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4 Mar 2026 |
Cowen said he can readily imagine that within 50 years most diseases will have been beaten back and everyone will die of old age or accidents.
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4 Mar 2026 |
Future conflicts will be more like World War One than World War Two.
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4 Mar 2026 |
In programming, AI will win out and do most of the work, with humans possibly working alongside it.
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4 Mar 2026 |
And I think ultimately, it’s easier to patch up people’s bodies than their minds because the brain is so complex.
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26 Feb 2026 |
The 52nd cohort of Emergent Ventures winners was announced by 2026-02-26.
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23 Feb 2026 |
If AI is going to disrupt so many economic matters so quickly, and so chaotically, are you short European equities?
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23 Feb 2026 |
I feel no personal need to short them, to be clear.
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23 Feb 2026 |
People, you need to unlearn your 2008-2009 macro!
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23 Feb 2026 |
Furthermore, truly shocking, rapid, revolutionary changes (not my prediction, to be clear) in fact disrupt nominal rigidities pretty…
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22 Feb 2026 |
Tyler Cowen recorded a podcast with Jake Sullivan and Jon Finer, mostly on geopolitics, with a transcript available.
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18 Feb 2026 |
Tyler Cowen appeared on the podcast of Rasheed Griffith and Diego Sanchez de la Cruz, discussing Latin America and Spain.
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18 Feb 2026 |
Tyler Cowen held a Conversations with Tyler episode with Joe Studwell, published by 2026-02-18.
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9 Feb 2026 |
That is one way to look at it.
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5 Feb 2026 |
Today will go down as some kind of turning point. Somewhat arbitrarily, but it is OK if journalists and historians have to present things…
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