Tyler Cowen and I sat down with Mark Zuckerberg to discuss how to boost progress: https://open.spotify.com/episode/6tPjIfE3eFjcb4oW5wMyDy …https://twitter.com/Facebook/status/1199033073251151872 …
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Here are my reactions to your interview with
@tylercowen: 1. There are two interesting possible causes of the apparent recent fall in innovation that were not mentioned: A. Finance brain drain; all smart people I know work in finance instead of engineering or science
B. Falling testosterone; if you control for obesity, age, and other natural factors testosterone is still falling. Testosterone is associated with risk taking, needed for innovation. 2. Florence, Edinburgh, Vienna, and now San Francisco. I hope that the “internet” is next place
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to be for innovation and exciting progress (because I don’t live there). Sadly however, I’m either doing the wrong stuff or I’m wrong. Maybe pc culture (another possible cause for the fall innovation) restricts the internet from being an open hotbed for innovation.
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@tylercowen asked “what do you want to see from academics?” My answer: use your tenure! You can’t be terminated, leverage that to take risks. I suppose it’s more complicated than that, but still. In general, I think too much emphasis was placed on academic study when - 2 more replies
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