Chuck Klosterman on But What If We're Wrong

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🗓️ 15 August 2016

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Chuck Klosterman, author of But What If We're Wrong, talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the possibility that things we hold to be undeniably true may turn out to be totally false in the future. This wide-ranging conversation covers music and literary reputations, fundamentals of science, and issues of self-deception and illusion.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Econ Talk, part of the Library of Economics and Liberty.
0:09.3	I'm your host, Russ Roberts of Stanford University's Hoover Institution.
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0:33.9	Today is July 21, 2016, and my guest is author and journalist Chuck Closterman, his latest
0:39.5	book, which is the subject of today's conversation, is, but what if we're wrong?
0:44.9	Thinking about the present as if it were the past.
0:47.7	Chuck, welcome to Econ Talk.
0:49.1	Hey, it's great to be here.
0:50.6	So, I want to start with the general question that runs through the book.
0:53.9	Why are we so confident about so many things that are likely to turn out to be incorrect?
0:59.8	So, there are really two parts to that question.
1:02.4	Why is it that there are a lot of things that are going to be incorrect in the future?
1:06.6	And yet, we still think they're obviously true now.
1:09.2	Well, I suppose maybe there's a two-sided answer to this.
1:14.3	Part of the reason that we sort of exist in this world where we live as if we are right
1:21.8	about how we view reality, even though maybe in the abstract, we'll be like, well, of course,
1:26.0	in the future, we'll think differently.
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