Title: On the Edge
Description: How some people — including poker players, hedge fund managers and venture capitalists — analyze and navigate risk, and why it’s important.
Subjects: effective altruism, existential risk, expected value, gambling, poker, probability, rationality, risk, statistics
Places: Las Vegas (Nevada), Silicon Valley (California)
People: Sam Altman (1985-), Sam Bankman-Fried, Doyle Brunson, Will MacAskill
Time periods: late 20th–early 21st centuries