- effective altruism, existential risk, expected value, gambling
How some people — including poker players, hedge fund managers and venture capitalists — analyze and navigate risk, and why it’s important.
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Contemporary, spare, cool and classical in form.
- contemporarynostalgic
- sparerichly built
- cooloverwhelming
- classical in formformally daring
- earnestironic
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About the book
- Author
- Nate Silver
- First published
- 2024
- Pages
- 568
- Publisher
- Penguin Publishing Group, Penguin Books, Limited
- Editions
- 3
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780593491638
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Nathaniel Read Silver is an American statistician, writer, and poker player who analyzes baseball, basketball, and elections. *--Wikipedia* *Photo Attribution:* Gary He, CC BY 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons
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