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Tyler Cowen - Talent, Collapse, & Pessimism of Sex

Dwarkesh Podcast

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Is There a Lot of Talent in London?

Where talent comes from is more or less obvious. You need money, you need a big city, you need some kind of common trade or linguistic connection. But where people come from, i think theory is very bad at understanding. Why did the renaissance blossom in florence and venice and not in milan? If you're going back earlier its, it wasn't obvious it would be those places. I've done a lot of reading to try to figure this out, but i find i've gotten remarkably not far on the question.

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