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The dangers of certainty

Posted: Sat Feb 08, 2014 12:04 pm
by stone
I was impressed by this 1970s video clip.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FXsVKbHY_T0

Re: The dangers of certainty

Posted: Sat Feb 08, 2014 12:11 pm
by Pointedstick
The danger of certainty is exactly why I promote non-government solutions to human problems. Laws are dramatically more difficult to revise or eliminate than anything in the private sector (including science). Laws lack the flexibility seemingly required to accommodate the reality of fallible humans with poor information.

Re: The dangers of certainty

Posted: Sat Feb 08, 2014 12:23 pm
by ns3
I think this post either sets or ties the record for the time it takes to prove the certainty of Godwin's Law.

Re: The dangers of certainty

Posted: Sat Feb 08, 2014 1:36 pm
by Mountaineer
ns3,

I had to look that up!  Thanks for broadening my horizon.  I had not a Clue before I read that last post about Godwin's Law; all this time I thought Hitler did it in the changeroom with cyanide.  :o

... Mountaineer

Re: The dangers of certainty

Posted: Sun Feb 09, 2014 7:15 pm
by ns3
Desert wrote: I was unaware of Godwin's law also.  Good stuff.
I probably should have watched the whole youtube to be fair but it was hard to get past the initial equation of certainty=the holocaust.