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Ep 36: Labour Economics Versus the World
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What is the labour market like? What are the largest barriers in the labour market? Nathan Young and I spoke to economist Bryan Caplan about his new book Labor Econ Versus The World. We also talk about
- Censorship and dictatorships
- Bets he is willing to take
- Malengo and international migration
- DALLE-2 and writing graphic novels
- The literature on education
- Why he is not an experimental economist
- The effect of AI on jobs
Bets Bryan is willing to take
- No important disruption to the politics of countries where Ukrainian refugees immigrate
- Poland will gain over 3x of the GDP Ukraine loses with regards to immigration
- Less than 20% chance of humanity ending by 2100
- Less than 60% chance that he will consider misaligned AI to be a problem in 20 years
- If >5% of people immigrate to a developed nation there will be no civil wars
- Upper bounds on religious fundamentalism in the EU
- What are the odds that mainstream psychiatry accepts his view of mental illness?
Papers referenced in the podcast
57 episodes
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What is the labour market like? What are the largest barriers in the labour market? Nathan Young and I spoke to economist Bryan Caplan about his new book Labor Econ Versus The World. We also talk about
- Censorship and dictatorships
- Bets he is willing to take
- Malengo and international migration
- DALLE-2 and writing graphic novels
- The literature on education
- Why he is not an experimental economist
- The effect of AI on jobs
Bets Bryan is willing to take
- No important disruption to the politics of countries where Ukrainian refugees immigrate
- Poland will gain over 3x of the GDP Ukraine loses with regards to immigration
- Less than 20% chance of humanity ending by 2100
- Less than 60% chance that he will consider misaligned AI to be a problem in 20 years
- If >5% of people immigrate to a developed nation there will be no civil wars
- Upper bounds on religious fundamentalism in the EU
- What are the odds that mainstream psychiatry accepts his view of mental illness?
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57 episodes
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