An Economic Robotic Rabbit Hole

Foreword

I’ll listen to a podcast sometimes and say, “I’ll have to look that up later.” I never do.

When listening to Tyler Cowen and Daron Acemoglu running at full speed, I found myself saying that so many times that I figured I should actually look these things up.

So I grabbed the transcript, read through it, and highlighted the key areas I was going to ask the robots to explain. Then I went and read Dr. Acemoglu’s new book and asked the robots to do the same. What came from it was 18 unique asynchronous rabbit holes to start to explore.

Here’s that research. You’ll find all 18 rabbit holes on the research page and realize that most, if not all, of them could go much deeper. So I’ve provided a quick way to grab a prompt and a link to a .md file with all the research on each one that you can drop into your robot of choice to continue the dive.

If you’re interested, you can read the whole transcript and listen along in real time. Of course, please go and subscribe and follow all the folks involved in this. Thanks to Tyler for giving permission. ChatGPT didn’t believe he would. Sam Altman, you owe me a Coke.

Original conversation: Tyler Cowen and Daron Acemoglu, Conversations with Tyler, Ep. 286. Annotations by Adam Gautsch and his robots.