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01 / uncertainty
“Clearly, I’m going to need the mathematical tools necessary to describe curvature. I don’t know them, so I will learn them.”
02 / uncertainty
“I also was, I almost say pleasantly, but I don’t know whether it’s pleasantly or unpleasantly, but factually surprised by the recent rate of progress.”
03 / uncertainty
“The problem is the questions that are easy to ask that we don’t know the answer to are super hard to answer.”
04 / uncertainty
“According to the rules of quantum mechanics, I can set up an electron, let’s say, in a state where it is neither purely clockwise or counterclockwise but a superposition of both. And that’s not just because we don’t know the answer, it’s because it truly is both until we measure it.”
05 / uncertainty
“I try to be clear on what is professional expertise, what is just me babbling, what is my level of credence in different things, where you’re allowed to disagree, whether, if you disagree, you’re just wrong and people can disagree with that also. But I do think I’m happy to go out on a limb a little bit, I’m happy to say, “Look, I don’t know but here’s my guess.”