This week we review Skin In The Game: Hidden Asymmetries In Daily Life by Nassim Nicholas Taleb. Taleb may hate (professional) book reviewers, but we both really enjoyed this book: the man is never dull! Timestamps below:
0:08 - Taleb is angry on Twitter...
0:59 ...but calm and collected here
Part 1: Intellectuals vs Risk-Takers
3:11 - The Intellectual Yet Idiot
6:43 - Taleb on education
11:22 - Why duels are good
12:44 - Trump’s appeal
Part 2: The Power of Intransigent Minorities
15:06 - Why lemonade is kosher
17:40 - NIMBYs, regulation, and early adopters
Part 3: Taleb Is A Conservative
20:21 - The precautionary principle
21:37 - Are GMOs dangerous?
26:18 - How religion helps us survive
Part 4: Academics Need Skin In The Game
32:34 - Equality and hypocrisy
35:08 - Why Thomas Picketty is wrong
38:00 - Taleb hates economists
44:26 - Final thoughts
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This week we review Skin In The Game: Hidden Asymmetries In Daily Life by Nassim Nicholas Taleb. Taleb may hate (professional) book reviewers, but we both really enjoyed this book: the man is never dull! Timestamps below:
0:08 - Taleb is angry on Twitter...
0:59 ...but calm and collected here
Part 1: Intellectuals vs Risk-Takers
3:11 - The Intellectual Yet Idiot
6:43 - Taleb on education
11:22 - Why duels are good
12:44 - Trump’s appeal
Part 2: The Power of Intransigent Minorities
15:06 - Why lemonade is kosher
17:40 - NIMBYs, regulation, and early adopters
Part 3: Taleb Is A Conservative
20:21 - The precautionary principle
21:37 - Are GMOs dangerous?
26:18 - How religion helps us survive
Part 4: Academics Need Skin In The Game
32:34 - Equality and hypocrisy
35:08 - Why Thomas Picketty is wrong
38:00 - Taleb hates economists
44:26 - Final thoughts
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E24: Cathy O'Neil's Weapons Of Math Destruction Reviewed
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E24: Cathy O'Neil's Weapons Of Math Destruction Reviewed
This week we review "Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy" by Cathy O'Neil. From terrible teacher evaluations to dodgy credit decisions, algorithms make plenty of mistakes - but are they really worse than the alternative? Timestamps:
0:23 - Three traits of a bad model
1:48 - Terrible teacher evaluations
6:50 - Personality tests and hiring
11:50 - Bad algorithms disproportionately hurt the poor
15:45 - Clopening and schedule optimization
18:19 - Life before algorithms: redlining
25:11 - Limits to model accuracy
26:21 - The rigor of sports analytics is not a panacea
28:07 - Predictions vs. privacy
32:37 - The stop and frisk analogy
35:35 - China's social credit system and research ethics
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This week we review Skin In The Game: Hidden Asymmetries In Daily Life by Nassim Nicholas Taleb. Taleb may hate (professional) book reviewers, but we both really enjoyed this book: the man is never dull! Timestamps below:
0:08 - Taleb is angry on Twitter...
0:59 ...but calm and collected here
Part 1: Intellectuals vs Risk-Takers
3:11 - The Intellectual Yet Idiot
6:43 - Taleb on education
11:22 - Why duels are good
12:44 - Trump’s appeal
Part 2: The Power of Intransigent Minorities
15:06 - Why lemonade is kosher
17:40 - NIMBYs, regulation, and early adopters
Part 3: Taleb Is A Conservative
20:21 - The precautionary principle
21:37 - Are GMOs dangerous?
26:18 - How religion helps us survive
Part 4: Academics Need Skin In The Game
32:34 - Equality and hypocrisy
35:08 - Why Thomas Picketty is wrong
38:00 - Taleb hates economists
44:26 - Final thoughts
Check out Random Talkers on YouTube:
www.youtube.com/c/RandomTalkers
Consider buying us a coffee (all donations go to better mics):
www.buymeacoffee.com/randomtalkers
