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"The most dangerous thought you can have as a creative person is to think you know what you're doing."


Or as the physicist and Bayesian pioneer E. T. Janes, wrote:

In any field, the Establishment is seldom in pursuit of the truth, because it is composed of those who sincerely believe that they are already in possession of it.

From Probability Theory: The Logic of Science, E.T. Jaynes, 2003.


I believe this so deeply, I love hearing him make such a compelling argument for it.




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