It makes for good Less Wrong introductory material to point people to, since there are lots of people who won't read long article online but will listen to a podcast on the way to work: LINK.
Apologies for the self-promotion, but it could hardly be more relevant to Less Wrong...
Timtyler is trolling again, please vote down. This exact point was addressed in the interview and in http://lesswrong.com/lw/xr/in_praise_of_boredom/. The math of exploration-exploitation does not give you anything like humanlike boredom.
Agreed on content, disagreed on policy (same as Alexandros) = 0