Jonathan Berk

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579 appearances 6 recordings 1 series first heard Jun 2026 last heard 13 Aug

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All Else Equal: Making Better Decisions · Rerun: Ep69 “The Science Behind Why We Don’t Just Say What We Mean” with Psychologist Steven Pinker - Part 1 · 15 Jul 2026 podcast

So the censorship board wasn't called the censorship board.

It was called the board for you know moral values.

There was no written rules about what the censorship board said or what it would do.

It'd just come out and say, this book is banned.

It's not moral, right?

Well, we're getting pretty close to our time limit on the episodes.

And there's so much more to discuss with Steve that I think the best thing to do now is to spread this interview over two episodes.

So join us in two weeks for the next part of this fascinating interview.

All Else Equal: Making Better Decisions · Rerun: Ep68 “Is It Better to Overestimate or Underestimate Your Enemies?” with H.R. McMaster · 1 Jul 2026 podcast

And I'm Jonathan Burke, a finance professor at the Graduate School of Business at Stanford University.

This is the All Else Equal podcast.

Well, Jules, I agree with you.

And the specific subject I think we should talk about today is the subject of intelligence, because I think there's a wonderful all else equal mistake that goes on there.

So let me be more specific.

If you look at the history, have noticed, at least certainly with U.S.

intelligence, that

that we seem to always make the same mistake.

We seem to always overestimate our enemies.

So let me give you some example.

During the Cuban Missile Crisis, the assumption was that Russia had ICBMs that could wipe America out.

In fact, they did not.

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