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Nate Silver: belief

21 Aug 2024 Conversations with Tyler Nate Silver on Risk-takers, Politicians, and Poker Players

“Hopefully, I’ll find other ways to hire more of them in the future, but people who are a little bit more directed, I think, and organized.”

— Nate Silver

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Nate Silver
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Claim type
belief
Recorded
21 Aug 2024
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Conversations with Tyler

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…Sure. It was the first time I’ve ever hired someone for this job, as opposed to at FiveThirtyEight. I was very excited by how many smart, mostly young people there were out there. Hopefully, I’ll find other ways to hire more of them in the future, but people who are a little bit more directed, I think, and organized. Running FiveThirtyEight and now your current ventures, what have you learned about social science, economics, game theory that you didn’t know to begin with?…

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