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<p>Risky Business is a weekly podcast about making better decisions. The hosts, Maria Konnikova and Nate Silver, are both journalists who moonlight as high-stakes poker players. On Risky Business, they bring their analytical framework to everything from politics to poker to personal decisions.</p> <p>Maria has a PhD in psychology and is the author of several books including, most recently, The Biggest Bluff. While researching the book, she inadvertently became a professional poker player, with over $500,000 in tournament winnings. She is a PokerStars Team Pro.</p> <p>Nate is the founder and former editor-in-chief of FiveThirtyEight, and one of the country’s leading election forecasters. He has over $800,000 in lifetime poker tournament winnings and his forthcoming book, On the Edge, is about gambling and risk.</p> <p>Risky Business is a co-production of iHeart Media and Pushkin Industries.</p>
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April 17, 2025
Nate Silver and Maria Konnikova discuss the AI 2027 report's grim predictions for AI's near-term impact on society and the potential for human deception by rogue AI.
April 10, 2025
Nate Silver interviews Maria Konnikova to analyze the impact of Trump's tariffs on decision-makers and average Americans.
April 3, 2025
<p>This week – after a quick check in on their March Madness brackets – Nate and Maria discuss Trump’s showdown with the Ivy League. Should schools like Harvard and Columbia do more to stand up to the President’s demands?</p> <p>Then they turn to 23andMe, which has declared bankruptcy. They discuss privacy and whether it’s okay to swap your biometric data for more convenience at the airport.</p> <p>Last but not least, they tackle the question of how to properly value your time.</p> <p>Further Reading:</p> <p>Kashmir Hill’s <a href="https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/691288/your-face-belongs-to-us-by-kashmir-hill/">Your Face Belongs To Us</a> </p> <p>Sendhil Mullianathan’s <a href="https://www.harvardmagazine.com/2015/04/the-science-of-scarcity">research on time poverty</a> </p> <p>For more from Nate and Maria, subscribe to their newsletters:</p> <p><a href="https://mariakonnikova.substack.com/">The Leap</a> from Maria Konnikova</p> <p><a href="https://www.natesilver.net/">Silver Bulletin</a> from Nate Silver </p> <hr> <p>Get ad-free episodes, and get your questions answered in an exclusive weekly bonus episode, of Risky Business by subscribing to Pushkin+ on Apple Podcasts or Pushkin.fm. Pushkin+ subscribers can access ad-free episodes, full audiobooks, exclusive binges, and bonus content for all Pushkin shows. </p> <p>Subscribe on Apple: <a href="http://apple.co/pushkin">apple.co/pushkin</a><br>Subscribe on Pushkin: <a href="https://www.pushkin.fm/join-pushkin">pushkin.fm/plus</a></p><p>See <a href="https://omnystudio.com/listener">omnystudio.com/listener</a> for privacy information.</p>
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