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3 Dec 2023

Scientists, many revel in uncertainty. It’s not that you want to be uncertain, you want to solve it, but you’re at this edge where it’s really frustrating because you don’t really want to not know the answer, but of course, if you knew the answer, it would be done.

“Scientists, many revel in uncertainty. It’s not that you want to be uncertain, you want to solve it, but you’re at this edge where it’s really frustrating because you don’t really want to not know the answer, but of course, if you knew the answer, it would be done.”

Speaker: Lisa Randall
Episode: #403 – Lisa Randall: Dark Matter, Theoretical Physics, and Extinction Events
Publisher: Lex Fridman Podcast

Lisa Randall

What Lisa said.

After that, he thought top-down was the way to go, but he actually didn’t make that much progress.

Scientists, many revel in uncertainty. It’s not that you want to be uncertain, you want to solve it, but you’re at this edge where it’s really frustrating because you don’t really want to not know the answer, but of course, if you knew the answer, it would be done.