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Risky Business with Nate Silver and Maria Konnikova

Risky Business with Nate Silver and Maria Konnikova

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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.

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.

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.

Risky Business is a co-production of iHeart Media and Pushkin Industries.

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Episodios
  • Society is betting on AI – and the outcomes aren’t looking good (with Nate Soares)

    Society is betting on AI – and the outcomes aren’t looking good (with Nate Soares)
    Nov 15 2025

    Humanity’s attempts to achieve artificial superintelligence will be our downfall, according to If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies. That’s the new book out by AI experts Nates Soares and Eliezer Yudkowsky. And while their provocation may feel extreme in this moment when AI slop abounds and the media is hyping a bubble on the verge of bursting, Soares is so convinced of his argument that he’s calling for a complete stop to AI development.

    Today on the show, Nate and Maria ask Soares how he came to this conclusion and what everyone else is missing.

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    The Leap from Maria Konnikova

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    52 m
  • The Democrats Are Folding on the Shutdown

    The Democrats Are Folding on the Shutdown
    Nov 12 2025

    Despite a blue wave in recent state and local elections, Senate Democrats caved to Republican demands on the shutdown, giving up the health care subsidies they started the shutdown over nearly 50 days ago.

    Nate and Maria argue that the Democrats are squandering their momentum, and discuss the consequences for key figures like Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer. They also reflect on the election of Zohran Mamdani, the Mayor-Elect of New York City, and talk about the difference between campaigns and reality.

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    The Leap from Maria Konnikova

    Silver Bulletin from Nate Silver

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    47 m
  • Even Our Economy Is Gamified Now

    Even Our Economy Is Gamified Now
    Nov 8 2025

    From social media and dynamic pricing to meme stocks and AI hype, gamification has taken over our lives—and a recent op-ed argues that it’s even spread into our economy, driven by Trump. Nate and Maria discuss the psychology behind the “casino economy” and why speculation and risk are so addicting. They talk about what it means when governments, businesses, and individuals lean into risk even as buffers against bad bets shrink—and why it’s easy not to object until it’s already too late.

    Further Reading:

    From the New York Times: It Is Trump’s Casino Economy Now. You’ll Probably Lose

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    The Leap from Maria Konnikova

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    36 m
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