Nate Silver and the Secret World of Risk-Takers
Slate Money
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4.1 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 17 August 2024
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
This week, author and data journalist Nate Silver joins Felix Salmon, Emily Peck, and Elizabeth Spires to discuss his new book On the Edge: The Art of Risking Everything, a deep dive into the risk-taking class that shapes modern society. They discuss the low-risk world of “the village,” and the community of high stakes, go-big-or-go-home investors on “the river.” How do these reams affect investments, AI, and politics? In the Plus segment: Nate gives his election forecast and the hosts debate how the media handled Joe Biden’s age concerns.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, welcome to Slate Money, your guide to the business and finance news of the week. |
| 0:17.0 | I'm Felix Salmon of Axios with Emily Peck of Axios. |
| 0:20.0 | Hello, hello. |
| 0:21.0 | With Elizabeth Spires of all manner of media places and with a media refugee |
| 0:29.6 | Nate would you say? Yeah I'd like that expat maybe or I don't know and media expat. We have |
| 0:36.0 | Nate Silver who needs very little introduction but obviously is statistician and poker player and the author of a new book length essay about the lead guitarist for you too. |
| 0:51.2 | Nate, plug the book. The book is called On the Edge, the art of risking everything. |
| 0:56.7 | It's a tour of people who basically take crazy risks for a living. |
| 1:00.8 | So we are going to talk all about the book. We're going to talk about the world of artificial intelligence. We're going to talk about Silicon Valley. We're going to talk about gambling. We're going to talk about this whole broad idea that you can split the |
| 1:15.8 | country between two different classes of people, the river and the village. We also |
| 1:20.7 | have a separate Slate Plus segment all about politics and Kamil Harris and Joe Biden and |
| 1:26.4 | probabilities in politics. |
| 1:28.5 | So all of that is coming up on Slate Money. |
| 1:36.0 | Mom, Dad, Can Miracle Out. |
| 1:38.0 | James Comerounds. |
| 1:40.0 | Can we have type away? |
| 1:41.0 | Oh, Michael. |
| 1:42.0 | We need speakers. |
| 1:43.0 | Pastors. |
| 1:44.0 | He's broken it. |
| 1:45.0 | She's cawing. |
| 1:46.0 | Where's the football? |
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