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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Replying to @patrickc
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 science1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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 when1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
so much innovation actually comes from amateur hobbyists, tinkerers, and entrepreneurs.
4. I’d love to see this interview again without Zuckerberg (who didn’t seem that interested) and with @elonmusk and a politician. If government is so@important when it comes to funding science
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Replying to @Molson_Hart @patrickc and
we need their input. Maybe get someone from Singapore or the Chinese Communist Part (haha!) if you can’t find a straight talking us elected official.
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