Jules van Binsbergen

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478 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 2 · 29 Jul 2026 podcast

The question is, aren't the smartest traders just able to figure out what the inside information is by putting together a lot of different pieces of what other people know and thereby get away with it?

So I think even there, it has very important implications for even security trading law.

No, indeed.

I think when comparing so-called repeated games with single-shot games, the implications can indeed be very different.

And what looks blatantly irrational in a one-shot game can be rationalized in repeated games.

That is such an important insight.

I have one other important question that was in your book, Stephen.

I think all three of us have a very strong interest in and desire to protect academic freedom and open debate in campuses.

And one thing that I really appreciate about your book is that despite the fact that I think I know that you feel quite strongly about open expression, open debate, you still man the argument for why taboos and certain speech codes might actually be justifiable on a university campus.

And I think that given what you describe in the book, I agree with most of the arguments.

The only thing that I'm very concerned about is that

What are taboos and what social equilibrium we have seems to vary a lot between cultures and over time.

And so they seem to be somewhat arbitrary in many ways, I guess, similar to the coordination game, which says, yes, of course, it's important that we all drive on the right.

But in principle, there's no rationale for why that would be better.

And even I would say, suppose that driving on the left was a little bit better than driving on the right.

Because we are now in the coordinated equilibrium of driving on the right, it's going to be very difficult to get people to switch unless you have somebody who's willing to upset the apple cart and try to get us to the better equilibrium.

So once we accept the argument that certain taboos are just necessary for us to function better.

Doesn't it become somewhat arbitrary in terms of what scientific breakthroughs we're going to allow for?

And who are we going to give the power to determine what taboos are the ones that we should stick with and the ones that we are supposed to be upsetting?

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