Nate Silver on the Art of Risking Everything

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4.2 • 727 Ratings

🗓️ 21 August 2024

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

What can we learn from professional risk-takers—poker players, hedge fund managers, crypto true believers and blue-chip art collectors— about how to navigate the uncertainty of the twenty first century? Nate Silver, the founder of FiveThirtyEight, seeks to answer that question in his new book “On the Edge: The Art of Risking Everything.” In Silver’s world view, risk takers are adept with details and planning, they are not motivated by money, they practice conscientious contrarianism, and they are all around us. We talk to Silver about his book, his poker playing and what the polls tell us about the November elections. Guests: Nate Silver, author, "On the Edge:" The Art of Risking Everything", Silver founded the website FiveThirtyEight, and is also the author of the bestselling book, "The Signal and the Noise." His newsletter is titled "Silver Bulletin" Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:27.9	Nate Silver has been modeling election since the 2008 presidential race when he rose to national prominence.
1:33.9	He has a new book, On the Edge, The Art of Risking Everything.
1:37.5	And we've got him here in the studio to talk about this election, Silicon Valley,
1:41.2	the chances AI will wipe out humanity and what we can learn from professional
1:45.5	risk takers.
1:46.6	He splits the world into two forces, the risk-taking river and the establishmentarian village,
1:52.0	and we'll talk about how that's structuring the 2024 race and much else in our world.
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