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13 Aug 2025 Conversations with Tyler Nate Silver on Life's Mixed Strategies
“I think if you hyper-optimize for every parameter in your day-to-day life, then you probably wind up being fairly miserable.”
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- 13 Aug 2025
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…When you think about maximizing expected value, how obsessed should you be with longevity? Should you be the next Bryan Johnson? Yes, I ask myself a lot of these questions. I don’t know. I think if you hyper-optimize for every parameter in your day-to-day life, then you probably wind up being fairly miserable. It’d be hypocritical if I said I was terribly concerned about longevity. In your 40s, both by choice and by force, you are required to be a little bit more careful about certain things, I suppose. Yes, I haven’t gotten on that bandwagon quite as much. I’m sure I will. Probably if we do this again in three years, I’ll be some health nut or something. For now, I’m making serious but incremental improvements, I guess. As a bettor, do you take Pascal’s wager seriously?…
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