Nate Silver - Smart vs. Stupid Risk Taking | Prof G Conversations

p is certainly on the extreme right taale of risk taking where he literally said in repeated interviews that if he

could push a button and gamble for the future of the universe and either the universe is destroyed or 51% of the time

it winds up being twice as good then it's a positive expected value bet so he'd make it that's a pretty insane way

to look at life and I I think people were too unwilling I think there was a little bit of a kind of boy Genius myth

around Sam [Music]