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@tylercowen engages today’s most underrated thinkers. New episodes every other Wednesday (+ occasional extras). Produced by @mercatus.
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    @cowenconvos
    Jun 17
    .@Roblox has 100M daily users, a $7B economy, and teenage millionaires in Argentina, South Korea, and everywhere in between—and all the games are built by the community itself. @tylercowen sat down with co-founder and CEO @DavidBaszucki to find out how it works. Some of Tyler's
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    @cowenconvos
    Jan 21, 2023
    Happy birthday to @tylercowen, aka the Kingpin of Information.
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    @cowenconvos
    Jan 21, 2025
    Happy birthday @tylercowen, aka still the Kingpin of Information.
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    Jan 21, 2023
    Happy birthday to @tylercowen, aka the Kingpin of Information.
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    @cowenconvos
    Mar 19, 2025
    New ep! @ezraklein and @tylercowen go deep on abundance: how it clashes with polarization, whether it’s elitist, “dark abundance”, and more. What’s a true abundance agenda for health care? Ezra and Tyler discuss a few ways the government can play a role: COWEN: What if someone
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    May 7, 2025
    "I'm a technological pessimist who became an optimist through repeated beatings over the head of scale," says Anthropic co-founder @jackclarkSF. And yet when estimating AI’s impact on US economic growth, he suggests it's more likely to boost annual growth rates to 3-5% rather
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    Oct 2, 2024
    New ep! @kylascan and @tylercowen explore whether fantasy world-building can help you understand economics, what she learned trading options at 16, why she opted for a state school over the Ivy League, introversion as an ingredient for social media success, what conspiracy
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    Nov 5, 2025
    How persuadable are humans, really? Sam Altman returns to discuss accidental AI takeover, why GPT-6 might crack real science, when we'll see AI CEOs running the show, and the question he asked someone to pose to the Dalai Lama. Timestamps 0:00:00 – Sam’s basic trick for
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    @cowenconvos
    May 29, 2024
    New episode! @michael_nielsen joins @tylercowen to discuss the beauty of the universe, quantum computing, Simone Weil, finding good collaborators, and...the status of linear algebra? COWEN: Is the status of linear algebra rising? NIELSEN: [laughs] That’s a great question. It
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    Jan 12, 2024
    Peter Thiel returns! Our very first guest is joining us again for special live show with @tylercowen in Miami. They plan to discuss political theology, Shakespeare, and how Christianity shapes Peter’s view of history, and more. Join us! Details and registration 👉
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    @cowenconvos
    Jan 21, 2022
    Happy birthday to the man who's seen it all! Have a great one, @tylercowen 🥳🎂
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    @cowenconvos
    Oct 7, 2020
    Happy #VPDebate night to the intellectuals
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    @cowenconvos
    Apr 29, 2021
    Balaji Srinivasan (@balajis) on how tech is changing education: conversationswithtyler.com/episodes/balaj… #tbt
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    Dec 4, 2024
    In his landmark multi-volume biography of Stalin, Stephen Kotkin shows how totalitarian power worked not just through terror from above, but through millions of everyday decisions from below. Currently a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution after 33 years at Princeton, Kotkin
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    Jun 11, 2025
    With millions of viewers hanging on his every word about fluvial flows in Breath of the Wild or unemployment rates in the towns of Skyrim, YouTuber @any_austin has become what Tyler calls "the very best in the world at the hermeneutics of infrastructure within video games." But
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