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Nate Silver

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
833 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Nate Silver (statistician)

You can make everything from controlled burning practices in California to the expense of various public services to the fact that if there is climate change, then needing to be more realistic and prepare for the type of housing that you're building in vulnerable areas. But instead, it turns out as something about DEI and the lesbian. Oh, yeah.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Nate Silver (statistician)

You can make everything from controlled burning practices in California to the expense of various public services to the fact that if there is climate change, then needing to be more realistic and prepare for the type of housing that you're building in vulnerable areas. But instead, it turns out as something about DEI and the lesbian. Oh, yeah.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Nate Silver (statistician)

I kind of want the lesbian fire chief to have a reality TV show if they get fired because they seem like these charismatic people. Personalities, right?

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Nate Silver (statistician)

I kind of want the lesbian fire chief to have a reality TV show if they get fired because they seem like these charismatic people. Personalities, right?

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Nate Silver (statistician)

I kind of want the lesbian fire chief to have a reality TV show if they get fired because they seem like these charismatic people. Personalities, right?

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Nate Silver (statistician)

Yeah, I mean, there was one Democrat. There was a picture now of, like, the McDonald's burning in a 100-degree storm fire. And she's like, this proves what corporate politics are doing to the climate. And it's like, yeah, you can maybe wait. What?

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Nate Silver (statistician)

Yeah, I mean, there was one Democrat. There was a picture now of, like, the McDonald's burning in a 100-degree storm fire. And she's like, this proves what corporate politics are doing to the climate. And it's like, yeah, you can maybe wait. What?

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Nate Silver (statistician)

Yeah, I mean, there was one Democrat. There was a picture now of, like, the McDonald's burning in a 100-degree storm fire. And she's like, this proves what corporate politics are doing to the climate. And it's like, yeah, you can maybe wait. What?

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Nate Silver (statistician)

It's almost like they don't even know what the idea is. They just want to believe in the founders.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Nate Silver (statistician)

It's almost like they don't even know what the idea is. They just want to believe in the founders.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Nate Silver (statistician)

It's almost like they don't even know what the idea is. They just want to believe in the founders.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Nate Silver (statistician)

Well, Sam Bickman-Fried kind of played into this cliche. He's kind of self-described on the spectrum. Not a guy who's going to wear a suit and tie, but he's like, if I am playing video games in investor pitch meetings, that will make me seem cool. I have so much RAM, I need to offload something and play a video game while I'm multitasking. And so he kind of played in that stereotype and was quite

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Nate Silver (statistician)

Well, Sam Bickman-Fried kind of played into this cliche. He's kind of self-described on the spectrum. Not a guy who's going to wear a suit and tie, but he's like, if I am playing video games in investor pitch meetings, that will make me seem cool. I have so much RAM, I need to offload something and play a video game while I'm multitasking. And so he kind of played in that stereotype and was quite

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Nate Silver (statistician)

Well, Sam Bickman-Fried kind of played into this cliche. He's kind of self-described on the spectrum. Not a guy who's going to wear a suit and tie, but he's like, if I am playing video games in investor pitch meetings, that will make me seem cool. I have so much RAM, I need to offload something and play a video game while I'm multitasking. And so he kind of played in that stereotype and was quite

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Nate Silver (statistician)

deliberate because they're very intense pattern matchers. Zuckerberg, he was kind of seen as like nerd in a hoodie and not the world's best communicator and just wanted to grind all day in engineering problems. That became the prototype that was used. Or Steve Jobs, a slightly different prototype, for example. And this can make it harder for new prototypes to break through.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Nate Silver (statistician)

deliberate because they're very intense pattern matchers. Zuckerberg, he was kind of seen as like nerd in a hoodie and not the world's best communicator and just wanted to grind all day in engineering problems. That became the prototype that was used. Or Steve Jobs, a slightly different prototype, for example. And this can make it harder for new prototypes to break through.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Nate Silver (statistician)

deliberate because they're very intense pattern matchers. Zuckerberg, he was kind of seen as like nerd in a hoodie and not the world's best communicator and just wanted to grind all day in engineering problems. That became the prototype that was used. Or Steve Jobs, a slightly different prototype, for example. And this can make it harder for new prototypes to break through.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Nate Silver (statistician)

I'm not trying to be super PC here, but the fact that there's so little money going to women founders and so little money going to black founders and Hispanic founders is kind of insane if you're the industry that wants to be disruptive and wants high variance, grit, and all these things, right? Because they're such intense pattern matchers. And because they kind of can't lose.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Nate Silver (statistician)

I'm not trying to be super PC here, but the fact that there's so little money going to women founders and so little money going to black founders and Hispanic founders is kind of insane if you're the industry that wants to be disruptive and wants high variance, grit, and all these things, right? Because they're such intense pattern matchers. And because they kind of can't lose.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Nate Silver (statistician)

I'm not trying to be super PC here, but the fact that there's so little money going to women founders and so little money going to black founders and Hispanic founders is kind of insane if you're the industry that wants to be disruptive and wants high variance, grit, and all these things, right? Because they're such intense pattern matchers. And because they kind of can't lose.