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13 Aug 2025 Conversations with Tyler Nate Silver on Life's Mixed Strategies
“The example I think I use in the book is Ezekiel Emanuel, telling people you shouldn’t go to restaurants because we still have some COVIDs like now, in 2022, 2023, right?”
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- 13 Aug 2025
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…Now, there’s plenty of material in your book about people who take a lot of risk. The subtitle is The Art of Risking Everything. How much do you think people segregate areas of risk-taking? For instance, people might say, “Well, Tyler, you travel to some dangerous locations.” But I’m totally afraid to scuba dive. I feel I’m very strongly segregated. I either take a fair amount of risk or close to none at all. Is that your model of most humans? That’s pretty normal. Yes. The example I think I use in the book is Ezekiel Emanuel, telling people you shouldn’t go to restaurants because we still have some COVIDs like now, in 2022, 2023, right? But he rides a motorcycle, which is known to be one of the most dangerous things per mile that you can do. People are usually not super meta-rational about risk. But should they be? Should you have one general risk attitude? Is that more meta-rational?…
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