JFC Nate Silver’s new book is over 450 pages.
Was the advance not big enough to afford an editor?!?
Was the advance not big enough to afford an editor?!?
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https://www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/2024/08/12/285-nate-silver-on-prediction-risk-and-rationality/
He would then fail to interview the 100s of millions who lost in the lottery.
As a scientist I’m floored by how poor his critical thinking faculty is. Maybe it’s just the selections, but still.
@ifbookspod.bsky.social you have a new candidate
4,500-word articles, maybe?
I’m not sure if I ever properly apologized to my committee.
One of the advantages of a field that is, by and large, only about 50 years old, and a sub discipline that was (at the time) only 10-to-30 years old, depending on how it’s defined.
(Although serialized romance/erotic stories are trying new things.)
@delong.bsky.social’s “slouching toward utopia” is over 500 and totally worth it.
(Those are just two off the top of my head.)
Nate is a serious poker player. He’s convinced that poker-thinking explains who has power today, and why.
He doesn’t seem to notice that private equity gamblers keep winning b/c they have infinite freerolls.
https://bsky.app/profile/stealthygeek.bsky.social/post/3l2idefc4432t
He sees this as evidence of (demand-side) increases in risk-taking behavior.
But, uh, it’s probably a supply-side phenomenon.
Thanks
And then we encouraged them to market the hell out of vice, offering sweet-seeming deals to get vulnerable people hooked.
That’s, y’know, BAD.
But it’s good for the top gamblers, for the same reason retail investors are good for Wall Street.
The village is The NY Times, much of academia, etc.
The river is gamblers, traders, venture capitalists.
And, to be clear, I think this big-picture point is a good one.
BUT…
The lottery is like 90+ B of that revenue.
I was able to buy it on through Apple’s ebook store, fwiw.
public library buy it. They sometimes have luck with overseas titles...
Poker player, that explains so much.
*Liz Lemon eyeroll*
Heaven before everyone knew the math from hundreds of online hours
Slowed down to see
Crash casualty
Better him than me