Rob Wiblin interviews Tyler on *Stubborn Attachments*
Conversations with Tyler
Conversations with Tyler
4.8 • 2.4K Ratings
🗓️ 16 October 2018
⏱️ 150 minutes
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Summary
In this special episode, Rob Wiblin of 80,000 Hours has the super-sized conversation he wants to have with Tyler about Stubborn Attachments. In addition to a deep examination of the ideas in the book, the conversation ranges far and wide across Tyler's thinking, including why we won't leave the galaxy, the unresolvable clash between the claims of culture and nature, and what Tyrone would have to say about the book, and more.
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Recorded September 21st, 2018
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| 0:00.0 | Conversations with Tyler is produced by the Mercatus Center at George Mason University, |
| 0:08.4 | bridging the gap between academic ideas and real-world problems. |
| 0:12.6 | Learn more at mercatis.org. |
| 0:15.3 | And for more conversations, including videos, transcripts, and upcoming dates, visit |
| 0:20.5 | ConversationsWithT Tyler.com. |
| 0:30.0 | Today's episode of Conversations with Tyler is in fact a conversation with Tyler, |
| 0:35.6 | with myself as the victim. |
| 0:37.5 | And we have here to interview me Robert Wiblin, who is one of the interviewer's |
| 0:41.9 | I most respect and indeed envy. Robert is director of research at a nonprofit called |
| 0:47.7 | 80,000 Hours, and their mission is to figure out and then communicate to people |
| 0:52.2 | how they can do the most good with their careers. |
| 0:54.8 | Robert is a long-standing leader in the effect of altruism movement. |
| 0:58.8 | He runs an excellent podcast called The 80,000 Hours Podcast, and he is from Adelaide. |
| 1:04.8 | Now with all that, we're here to discuss among other things my latest book published by Strait Press |
| 1:11.0 | called Stubborn Attachments. A vision for a society of free, prosperous, and responsible individuals. |
| 1:18.2 | But of course in the tradition of these interviews, Robert is free to range to wherever he wants. |
| 1:23.1 | Robert, thank you for coming on. |
| 1:24.6 | Thanks so much. It's a privilege to be out of the interview. |
| 1:27.6 | I think you've had perhaps more influence on me than any other rider. |
| 1:31.3 | I'm sure I've spent thousands of hours reading marginal revolution over the last 10 or 12 years. |
| 1:36.0 | Oh, thank you. |
| 1:36.4 | And in fact, I think it was reading marginal revolution that prompted me to switch into studying |
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