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Hello everyone and welcome to Conversations with Tyler.
Today I'm chatting with Nate Silver, live in New York.
We are here to commemorate the paperback edition of Nate's On the Edge,
The Art of Risking Everything,
a book that last year I described sincerely as absolute fun on every page.
We're also going to revisit some of our earlier predictions from a year ago and nine years ago and talk about everything I want to talk about.
Nate, welcome.
Tyler, always a pleasure.
At current margins, do you learn anything from studying expected utility theory?
Well, I mean, I probably spend 10th of my time playing poker.
And like certainly in that respect, you're quite explicit about calculating things like that, right?
But are you learning new ideas, new theories, new concepts,
or are you just applying what you learned, say 13 years ago, whenever?
No, I feel it still feels fresh to me.
I mean, I, you know, I think so when I've talked about the book to people,