In episode 15, Connor talks with statistician Nate Silver about his new book, On the Edge: The Art of Risking Everything, election forecasting, starting and leaving FiveThirtyEight, his losing streaks at feature tables, and co-hosting the podcast Risky Business with Maria Konnikova.
Silver also discusses the upcoming US presidential election, sports analysis, limit hold’em, his Silver Bulletin newsletter, and why no one should be a sucker in life.
This interview was filmed on June 8 at the 2024 World Series of Poker (WSOP) at Horseshoe and Paris Las Vegas.
Article: https://www.pokernews.com/podcast/life-outside-poker/life-outside-poker-15-nate-silver-46742.htm
Life Outside Poker is a new podcast for PokerNews hosted by Connor Richards that aims to take a closer look at poker players and give viewers and listeners the opportunity to get to know them on a personal level.
0:00 Introduction
00:52 Interest in numbers
5:18 Politics
9:55 Election 2024
11:40 Election 2016
15:29 High school debate
17:38 Don’t be a fool
22:53 On the edge
27:48 Sam Bankman-Fried
32:46 Book interviews
42:21 How poker has changed
46:07 Televised Bad Beats at the WSOP
53:55 Substack and Podcast
56:41 Maria Konnikova
59:33 What gives you hope?
1:30:00 Advice for my younger self
1:04:14 Life lesson from poker
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