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Federalist Radio Hour

Making Human Decisions In The Age Of AI

Federalist Radio Hour

Radio America

News, News Commentary, Politics

4.53.3K Ratings

🗓️ 10 August 2022

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

On this episode of The Federalist Radio Hour, Russ Roberts, the John and Jean De Nault research fellow at the Hoover Institution and host of the EconTalk podcast, joins Federalist Culture Editor Emily Jashinsky to discuss his book "Wild Problems: A Guide To The Decisions That Define Us."

You can find Roberts' book here: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/672977/wild-problems-by-russ-roberts/

Transcript

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0:00.0

Much like you, I've got a lot to complain about, like open toe sandals.

0:04.3

Who thought that was a good idea? Who wants to look at toes? Adults who drink squash?

0:08.7

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0:15.2

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0:20.0

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0:25.4

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0:30.0

How are the days are coming? How are the days are coming? How are the days are coming? How are the days are coming?

0:36.8

Yes, it's official. Holidays are coming. Coca-Cola Zero Sugar brings the magic this Christmas.

1:07.6

We're back with another edition of the Federalist Radio Hour. I'm Emily Gisinski,

1:11.4

Culture Editor here at the Federalist. As always, you can email the show at radioatthefederalist.com,

1:16.0

follow us on Twitter at FDRLST. Make sure to subscribe wherever you download your podcasts as well.

1:21.4

Today I'm joined by Russ Roberts, he's the president of Shalom College and Jeroos Limmings,

1:25.6

also a fellow, a research fellow at the Hoover Institution and out now with a new book. It's called

1:32.4

Wild Problems and I can't wait to hear about it. Russ is also the host of course of Econ Talk and

1:38.5

you can find out more, you can listen to his work, you can look at his work over at RussRoberts.info.ruz. Thank you so

1:44.8

much for joining us. Great to be with you, Emily. Tell us about wild problems. It's such an interesting

1:51.6

premise and I just would love to hear you kind of give the basic description before we dive even

1:57.2

deeper into everything you talk about. Wild problems are the problems that are very difficult to

2:05.4

attack rationally and analytically in the way that we're used to making decisions. So these are

2:12.0

decisions like whether to get married, who to marry, whether to have children, how many,

2:17.9

whether to move, what career to pursue. All these kind of choices that we have in our lives,

2:23.7

we have some information about them, some of it's often wrong, but we have some idea of what we're

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