Nate Silver

Abundance by Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson

but I recommend Abundance to the Silver Bulletin audience.

on natesilver.net · 27 Mar 202519mo · Report

Addiction by Design by Natasha Dow Schüll

The third is called Addiction by Design um by Natasha Schüll. And Natasha is an NYU anthropologist who studied Las Vegas as like her thesis, basically. She did like a lot of reporting um just about the properties of slot machines and how addictive they are and about the kind of casino gambling industry in general. And of course, she draws metaphors between that and the rest of uh society. Nate Silver. Thank you very much. Thank you, Ezra.

on a podcast · 13 Aug 20242yr · Report

The Hour Between Dog and Wolf by John Coates

Um so, one book is pertinent to the discussion that we had a moment ago, which is called The Hour Between Dog and Wolf. It's written by John Coates, who is an academic economist who then um became a derivatives trader, I think, for Deutsche Bank in New York. And found out that the traders that he studied were really weird, right? Like these traders would have strange physical and mental stress responses to the market rising or falling.

on a podcast · 13 Aug 20242yr · Report

The Making of the Atomic Bomb by Richard Rhodes

Number two, in a totally different direction, um The Making of the Atomic Bomb by Richard Rhodes. We didn't talk as much about some of the AI stuff today, but at the end of the book there's a pretty long, elaborate comparison between the Manhattan Project and the building of these large language models that some people think um could be potentially very dangerous.

on a podcast · 13 Aug 20242yr · Report