i think it's made the left more stupider than the right. The important thing now is to give people who are trump supporters an open path into not being trump supporters and being something else. Like i thought the marches went pretty well from that point of view. They were very broad, very american. But a lot of the intellectual left, i feel, has become polarized and is doing the opposite. How did that happen? So i ntim alike, you know, arnold cling and robin hanson and bryan caplan and alex tabrock and so on.
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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