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13 Aug 2025 Conversations with Tyler Nate Silver on Life's Mixed Strategies
“I think, obviously, EA took a lot of hits for Sam Bankman-Fried, but if anything, they probably should have taken more reputational damage.”
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- 13 Aug 2025
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…I think of them as high variance in conscientiousness, rather than high in it. [laughter] The EAs and the rationalists are more high variance, I think. There can be a certain type of gullibility is one problem. I think, obviously, EA took a lot of hits for Sam Bankman-Fried, but if anything, they probably should have taken more reputational damage. That was really bad, and there were a lot of signs of it, including his interviews with you and other people like that. It contrasts with poker players who have similar phenotypes but are much more suspicious and much more street smart. Also, the Bay Area is weird. I feel like the West Coast is diverging more from the rest of the country. I agree.…
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