When the Robots Take Over... - Cautionary Questions
Cautionary Tales with Tim Harford
Pushkin Industries
4.7 • 6.4K Ratings
🗓️ 24 May 2024
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
Tim Harford is joined by Jacob Goldstein to answer your questions. Does winning the lottery make you unhappy? Is Bitcoin bad for the economy? When does correlation imply causation? And what will Tim and Jacob do when the robot overlords come for their jobs?
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| 0:00.0 | Pushkin. |
| 0:07.0 | It all started with two federal agents who heard a rumor. |
| 0:15.0 | She mentions, well, there is this alleged murder to have taken place. |
| 0:21.4 | There is just one problem. They had no clue. There was. |
| 0:23.0 | They had no clue who the victim was. |
| 0:26.0 | We have to do our job, and we have to find out who did they kill. |
| 0:32.0 | It had been 15 years since this alleged murder. Was it still |
| 0:39.7 | possible to unearth the truth. |
| 0:55.7 | I used to watch the Unsaupt Mississippi shows and I often thought about calling because I was like this is this is not right. How can the person get killed and no one knows anything? I'm Jake Halpern and this is Deep Cover The Nameless Man. |
| 1:05.0 | Listen wherever you get your podcasts and if you want to hear the entire season right now, |
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| 1:15.0 | F.M. slash Plus. Let's play around. It sounds very Elvin. I always think of David Bowie when I think of Wardaw in one of his early songs talks about |
| 1:34.7 | Bright Light, Soho, Wardaw Street. Bowie himself has an Elfin aspect. |
| 1:41.6 | He certainly does. His breakthrough gig at Aalesbury, my hometown, which basically is about the only thing remarkable about Aalesbury. |
| 1:49.0 | Well, and also home of Tim Hartford, as the plaque says. |
| 1:53.0 | Yeah, they've got a statue for Bowie, not yet for me. |
| 1:56.0 | I don't know why. |
| 1:57.0 | Should we go? |
| 1:58.0 | Okay. Let's go. |
| 2:00.0 | Okay, I'm ready. Hello and welcome back to another episode of |
| 2:25.8 | cautionary questions are first of 2024. I am of course Tim |
| 2:30.2 | Harford you are our loyal listeners you've been sending in your burning questions on money, |
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