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'''Eric:''' Now Tyler, you have a sort of a portfolio of different ways of communicating with the world. Have you ever dragged Steven Pinker onto a podcast â which you do under âConversations with Tylerâ â or have you discussed his bizarre notion of optimism, on your famous economics blog âMarginal Revolutionâ which you do with your colleague Alex? | '''Eric:''' Now Tyler, you have a sort of a portfolio of different ways of communicating with the world. Have you ever dragged Steven Pinker onto a podcast â which you do under âConversations with Tylerâ â or have you discussed his bizarre notion of optimism, on your famous economics blog âMarginal Revolutionâ which you do with your colleague Alex? | ||
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'''Tyler:''' My podcast âConversations with Tylerâ has an episode with Steven Pinker, and I sat him down in a chair the way you did with me and I said: âSteven, the cost of destroying the world by pressing a button is falling all of the time, every year. At some point it will only cost, say, twenty thousand dollars to take out a major city. How long do you think the world is actually going to last, given that the demand curve slopes downwards â when prices fall, people do more of things | '''Tyler:''' My podcast âConversations with Tylerâ has an episode with Steven Pinker, and I sat him down in a chair the way you did with me and I said: âSteven, the cost of destroying the world by pressing a button is falling all of the time, every year. At some point it will only cost, say, twenty thousand dollars to take out a major city. How long do you think the world is actually going to last, given that the demand curve slopes downwards â when prices fall, people do more of things; destructive weaponry is becoming cheaper â how can you be optimistic?â, I asked him. No good answer. I would say evasion. He said âwell, my theory is not predictive, it's just a way of thinking about it [and so on]. Â | ||
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'''Eric:''' So, it instantly falls apart. | '''Eric:''' So, it instantly falls apart. |