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21 Aug 2024 Conversations with Tyler Nate Silver on Risk-takers, Politicians, and Poker Players
“People who are very competitive — and I put myself in that category, I think — can sometimes be a little bit irrational about continuing to fight even after they’ve already won.”
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- 21 Aug 2024
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…I would think you’re pretty emotional. Yes, that can come out on Twitter and things like that a little bit. People who are very competitive — and I put myself in that category, I think — can sometimes be a little bit irrational about continuing to fight even after they’ve already won. In some ways, I think that can be a bias potentially in certain ways. Who was the first human to think probabilistically with a reasonable degree of consistency? Or have we seen one yet?…
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