August 20, 2026

A Conversation Rabbit Hole

When two PhD economists are talking while you drive down the road, everything does not exactly make sense. I asked the robots to help them make more sense.

A reader's edition

Tyler Cowen talks to Daron Acemoglu about liberalism, automation, education, and AI. These are the places I had to stop, look around, and learn a little more.

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