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#174 – Tyler Cowen: Economic Growth and the Fight Against Conformity and Mediocrity
Lex Fridman Podcast
Is There Something About Our Human Nature That Allows Us to Fight Against Probability?
I'm really not so negative on human nature. And as an economist, I very much see the gains from cooperation. But if you just ask, are there outliers in history? Like was there a Hitler? For instance, obviously. And again, you let the clock tick another Hitler with nuclear weapons doesn't per se care about his own destruction. It will happen. So your sense is fundamentally people are good, but on the hand equilibrium is what we would call it. Trembling hand equilibrium. That the basic logic is for cooperation, which is mostly what we've seen even between enemies,. However every now and then someone does something crazy and you don't know how to react to
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