On the Edge: The Art of Risking Everything
Engaging and entertaining ... In his quest to understand people who are obsessed with risk, Silver draws on a wide range of insights ... Ultimately presents an unsympathetic vision of capitalism’s future.
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So focused on bettors and the bets they bet that one might suspect it was written not by Nate Silver but by Nathan Detroit ... Silver is a serious poker player. Unless you are yourself serious about poker, you’re likely to find the author’s lengthy hand-by-hand description of his successes and failures a bit tiresome.
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A hefty set of meditations on probabilistic thinking, only this time the author is taking in broader horizons ... Silver might have spent more time exploring domains where expected-value thinking may be even more consequential.
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