Speaker unverified: belief

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…Yeah, he won the Nobel Prize now. Who’s laughing now? Exactly. Exactly. Exactly. I think one wants to be able to pop up and recognize the appropriate level of confidence. But I think there’s also a lot of value in just being like, “I’m going to essentially assume, I’m going to condition on this problem being possible or this being broadly the right approach. And I’m just going to go and assume that for a while and go and work within that, and push really hard on it.” And if society has lots of people doing that for different things, that’s actually really useful in terms of going and- … things that’s actually really useful in terms of going and either really ruling things out. We can be like, “Well, that didn’t work and we know that somebody tried hard.” Or going and getting to something that does teach us something about the world. So another interesting hypothesis is the super superposition hypothesis. Can you describe what superposition is?…

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