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Maria Konnikova on Poker, Psychology, and Reason (Season 1, Episode 102)
Podcast Episode | Talk-Show
The best chess and Go players in the world aren't human beings any more; they're artificially-intelligent computer programs. But the best poker players are still humans. Poker is a laboratory for understanding how rationality works in ...See moreThe best chess and Go players in the world aren't human beings any more; they're artificially-intelligent computer programs. But the best poker players are still humans. Poker is a laboratory for understanding how rationality works in real-world situations: it features stochastic events, incomplete information, Bayesian updating, game theory, reading other people, a battle between emotions and reason, and real-world stakes. Maria Konnikova started in psychology, turned to writing, and then took up professional-level poker, and has learned a lot along the way about the challenges of being rational. We talk about what games like poker can teach us about thinking and human psychology. See less
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Jun 22, 2020 (United States)

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Earth to Echo (2014)
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Maria Konnikova
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