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Uncertainty Isn’t a Human Flaw, It’s a Feature of the World
As Barad spoke, I experienced something extraordinary. For a few brief moments, as her words hung in the air above us in the darkened auditorium, I understood quantum physics. And when she stopped speaking, that understanding was gone. It was a product of intra-action too. I was left with the sense that while I would never really understand quantum
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As Tetlock explained, the human mind was bested by the animal in the maze study “because we are, deep down, deterministic thinkers with an aversion to probabilistic strategies that accept the inevitability of error.” The search for grand theories, for underlying systems and mechanisms of action in the world, in any other number of domains, from
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too much certainty is a problem for us, especially when that certainty drifts from real-world dynamics. So in order to protect our prediction engine, our brain and nervous system, from getting into what we’ve called the bad bootstrap, that is from getting very, very certain about something that’s wrong, it really behooves us to occasionally inject... See more