Mood affiliation was a concept i first coined to refer to people who judge arguments by the mood of the argument. So if an argument is optimistic, they think the argument is more likely to be correct. A lot of very contemp rary partisan debate is really about moods. If you feel someone is not condemning something with the right mood, you'll reject the attached substantive claim. The bay area strikes me as having a lot of kind of pearl clutching and a reputation for thinking it's more tolerant than it is. And i think that's true of both coasts. All cultures are oblivious. In america, in particular, its coasts tend to think like we're the cosmopolitan side
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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