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Tyler Cowen Quotes

Total quotes: 7
“The TSA is experimenting with software that tries to detect, by scanning body language, which plane passengers have hostile intentions.”
— Tyler Cowen, Average is Over: Powering America Beyond the Age of the Great Stagnation
Tagged: Facts, The future, Wow
“...studies of spelling bees show that the winning spellers are those who not only work hard, but who engage in disciplined forms of study that do not always yield immediate positive feedback.”
— Tyler Cowen, Average is Over: Powering America Beyond the Age of the Great Stagnation
Tagged: Average Is Over, Facts, Self-improvement
“The benefits of the new system are usually invisible, yet the costs hit you in the face.”
— Tyler Cowen, Average is Over
Tagged: Life
“If you need to measure it, you’ve failed.”
— Tyler Cowen, Tyler Cowen on Rationality, COVID-19, Talismans, and Life on the Margins
“As in chess, we can expect to see dramatic gains in the personal and professional lives of people who interpret machine feedback—of all kinds—quickly. A particular personality trait that doesn't come easily to everyone will be needed in a lot of situations: the ability to handle or maybe just ignore the ongoing appearance of stressful situations. ”
— Tyler Cowen, Average is Over: Powering America Beyond the Age of the Great Stagnation
Tagged: Average Is Over, Facts, Self-improvement
“As Pole's computers crawled through the data, he was able to identify about 25 products that, when analyzed together, allowed him to assign each shopper a 'pregnancy prediction' score. More important, he could also estimate her due date to within a small window, so Target could send coupons timed to very specific stages of her pregnancy. ”
— Tyler Cowen, Average is Over: Powering America Beyond the Age of the Great Stagnation
Tagged: Average Is Over, Facts, The future, Wow
“An intelligent machine might come up with a new theory of cosmology, and perhaps no human will be able to understand or articulate that theory. Maybe it will refer to non-visualizable dimensions of space or nonintuitive understandings of time. The machine will tell us that the theory makes good predictions, and if nothing else we will be able to use one genius machine to check the predictions of the theory from the other genius machine. Still, we, as humans, won't have a good grasp on what the theory means and even the best scientists will grasp only part of what the genius machine has done. It would be like trying to explain the Periodic Table of Elements to a five-year-old. Maybe it can be done, but it will hardly serve as an easily grasped, intuitive understanding of what is going on. ”
— Tyler Cowen, Average is Over: Powering America Beyond the Age of the Great Stagnation
Tagged: Artificial intelligence, Average Is Over, Facts, The future
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