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🗓️ 25 May 2020
⏱️ 100 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | This isn't your average business podcast and he's not your average host. |
| 0:06.6 | This is the James Altiger Show. |
| 0:12.6 | Today on the James Altiger Show. |
| 0:16.1 | This innate desire for humans, for certainty. |
| 0:20.4 | We are really afraid of the unknown. |
| 0:23.0 | We want to know what tomorrow is going to look like. |
| 0:25.9 | And paradoxically, I'm seeing so much of this. |
| 0:29.6 | People tend to prefer the certainty of a worst case scenario over the uncertainty of the unknown. |
| 0:36.5 | If I know exactly what's going to happen tomorrow, even if it's bad, that's better than not. |
| 0:41.0 | Right. |
| 0:42.0 | Scientists are often dealing with the uncertain. |
| 0:44.7 | And you see this throughout history. |
| 0:46.0 | Like, often the history of science is about people getting more and more certain about |
| 0:50.9 | a theory. |
| 0:51.9 | And then some cataclysmic change happens. |
| 0:55.0 | Like Einstein throws out all the old rules and conceives of a completely new concept that breaks the routine. |
| 1:01.4 | Galileo did this, Newton did this, and shakes up the whole scientific world. |
| 1:07.0 | Yeah, that's right. |
| 1:08.4 | Almost all facts have a half-life. |
| 1:11.6 | We are certain of certain facts until we're not anymore. |
| 1:15.4 | It's just like the natural cycle of science. |
| 1:17.9 | It's that mode of falsification that's built into the scientific method. |
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