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#39 Tyler Cowen: Thinking About Thinking

2018/8/21
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Tyler Cowen: 本次访谈涵盖了广泛的主题，包括对未来劳动力市场、虚拟现实、新闻业、种族关系、人与物理世界关系、决策改进、培养孩子的韧性、阅读习惯、教育体系等方面的看法。Cowen 认为，技术进步将导致劳动者分化，未来需要掌握信息技术或人际交往能力才能获得成功；虚拟现实技术有其优缺点，但带宽限制和人们对简单事物的偏好可能会限制其发展；传统的报纸模式正在衰落，未来将被更个性化的信息流所取代；种族隔离现象令人担忧；人们越来越远离物理世界，基础设施建设不足；培养孩子的韧性和内在动力需要为其提供良好的环境和榜样；阅读习惯会随着年龄的增长而改变，年轻时更容易被具有颠覆性影响的书籍所改变，而随着年龄的增长，阅读的重点会转向获取特定信息或了解不同文化；教育体系应该包含更多游戏化的学习方式；良好的思考能力需要长期的学习和积累，并学会在适当的时候寻求帮助；人们应该对自己的观点保持谨慎，并学会在适当的时候寻求帮助；在冲突中，人们应该认识到自己并不总是正确的，并学会妥协。 Shane Parrish: Parrish 与 Cowen 就技术变革对社会的影响、人们对变革的反应、以及如何提升思维能力和应对未来挑战等方面进行了深入探讨。Parrish 关注的是技术变革对社会的影响，以及人们如何适应这些变化。他与 Cowen 探讨了虚拟现实、新闻业的未来、以及人们对社会变革的反应等问题。Parrish 还对 Cowen 的一些观点提出了质疑，例如，他对虚拟现实技术的潜在负面影响表示担忧，并对 Cowen 关于人们对变革反应迟缓的观点提出了不同的看法。

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Tyler Cowen discusses the implications of his book 'Average is Over', highlighting a future where productivity is enhanced by technology, leading to a divide between those who can leverage it and those who compete against it.

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There are only a handful of websites that I read religiously. One of those is MarginalRevolution.com), started by my next guest, Tyler Cowen.

Other than hosting one of the most popular economic blogs in the world, Tyler is also an economics professor at George Mason University, a regular New York Times columnist, and the author of over a dozen books, including Average is Over), and The Complacent Class).

With such a prolific guest, it’s no wonder that we cover a lot of ground. In this episode, we discuss:

  • How the future of labor will look drastically different than it does today, and what we can do to future-proof our livelihood
  • The pros and cons of virtual reality and the impact it could have on society
  • The fate of newspapers and how information will be more and more “bundled” according to our tastes and preferences
  • Race relations in the world, and how in many ways we’ve taken discouraging steps backwards
  • How we’re losing touch with the physical world, and some of the symptoms that indicate that we could be in for a rough ride
  • What Tyler suggests doing to improve decision making and how important (and rare) that skill will be in the coming years
  • Tyler’s advice to parents about how to foster resilience, tenacity and internal drive in their children
  • Tyler’s “quake books” and the reading process he’s developed over the years that keeps him sharp
  • Why giving books as gifts can be dangerous
  • The one skill every person should possess before Googling anything
  • What playing competitive chess as a child taught Tyler about how he thinks and views the world today

And much more, including Tyler’s thoughts on minimum wage, bitcoin, and his favorite television programs.

If you want to upgrade your thinking so you’re prepared for the brave new world that’s rapidly developing before our eyes, you won’t want to miss this fascinating episode.

 

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