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Rationally Speaking #214 - Anthony Aguirre on "Predicting the future of science and tech, with Metaculus"

Rationally Speaking #214 - Anthony Aguirre on "Predicting the future of science and tech, with Metaculus"

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Rationally Speaking #214 - Anthony Aguirre on "Predicting the future of science and tech, with Metaculus"

FromRationally Speaking Podcast

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Length:
50 minutes
Released:
Aug 5, 2018
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

This episode features physicist Anthony Aguirre discussing Metaculus, the site he created to crowd-source accurate predictions about science and technology. For example, will SpaceX land on Mars by 2030? Anthony and Julia discuss details such as: why it's useful to have predictions on questions like these, how to measure Metaculus' accuracy, why Anthony chose not to run it like a traditional prediction market, and how to design incentives to reward good forecasters.
Released:
Aug 5, 2018
Format:
Podcast episode

Titles in the series (100)

Rationally Speaking is the bi-weekly podcast of New York City Skeptics. Join host Julia Galef and guests as they explore the borderlands between reason and nonsense, likely from unlikely, and science from pseudoscience. Any topic is fair game as long as we can bring reason to bear upon it, with both a skeptical eye and a good dose of humor! We agree with the Marquis de Condorcet, who said that in an open society we ought to devote ourselves to "the tracking down of prejudices in the hiding places where priests, the schools, the government, and all long-established institutions had gathered and protected them."Rationally Speaking was co-created with Massimo Pigliucci, is produced by Benny Pollak, and is recorded in the heart of New York City's Greenwich Village.