Ykow o, on this particular cultural point, cause you even more concern because 500 a thousand, five thousand years time, were were not just slightly, but enormously limited. You wrote with with derick parfet am back in the early nineties about how we should, you know, our intuitions baut the discount rate we should have for the future, are wrong. The discount rate should be much lower, and we should care away more about people in the distant future. And if you believe that, shouldn't that?
A few months ago, Tyler asked Patrick Collison, CEO of Stripe, to be on the show. Patrick agreed, but only under the condition that the be the one to do the interviewing. Thus, what follows is the conversation Patrick wanted to have with Tyler, not the one you wanted to have.
Happily Patrick stayed true to the spirit of Conversations with Tyler, and their dialogue covers a wide range of topics including the the benefits of diverse monocultures, the state of macroeconomics, Donald Trump, the amazing economics faculty at GMU, Peter Thiel, Brian Eno, Thomas Schelling, why Twitter is underrated, and — most pressing of all — why Marginal Revolution is so strange looking.
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Recorded January 25th, 2017 Other ways to connect
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