On: Rationality, Risk, and Skin in the Game. Episode: N/A Date: March 2018 Background: Author of “Skin in the Game”. Key Subjects: Third episode with Taleb related to the general topic of skin in the game. Decision-making and policy in
On: Cruelty. Episode: N/A Date: September 2018 Background: Yale University psychologist, author of “Against Empathy”. Key Subjects: Empathy: Sharing someone else’s emotions. Fairly primitive and often less productive than cognitive empathy: consciously trying to take their perspective. What motivates cruelty.
On: The Seven Kinds of Atheism. Episode: N/A Date: October 2018 Background: philosopher and author; latest book “Seven Types of Atheism”. Key Subjects: Gray argues that progress is an illusion and that most “atheisms” inherit, unknowingly, a religious belief in
On: Artificial intelligence. Episode: N/A Date: September 2018 Background: Emeritus professor of robotics at MIT. Key Subjects: Future of robots and artificial intelligence. Brooks argues that we both under-appreciate and over-appreciate the impact of innovation. He applies this insight to
On: Mastery, Specialization, and Range. Episode: N/A Date: May 2019 Background: Journalist, author of “The Sports Gene” and “Range“. Key Subjects: Paths to performance: (early) specialization versus generalization. Need specialists (to advance knowledge), but also generalists (to integrate knowledge). Society