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{{quote|If there was certainty, ninety-five percent of you wouldn’t ''have'' any goddamn work. | {{quote|If there was certainty, ninety-five percent of you wouldn’t ''have'' any goddamn work. | ||
:—Also the Jolly Contrarian}} | :—Also the Jolly Contrarian}} | ||
Be careful what you wish for. A world of certainty is a world of no [[doubt]], no mystery, no ''je ne sais pas''; no contingency, no [[disclaimer]]s that [[past performance is no indicator of future results]], not because it suddenly is an indicator, but because that accursed inductive mode of reasoning is at long last obsolete, all data is at hand and the future can be arrived at ''de''ductively, from first principles, the same way that rice pudding and income tax can be deduced from “[[cogito, ergo sum]]”.<ref>{{hhgg}}, [[as any fule kno]].</ref> | |||
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Revision as of 23:04, 9 December 2020
 I don’t want knowledge. I want certainty.
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If there was certainty, ninety-five percent of you wouldn’t show up for work.
- —The Jolly Contrarian
If there was certainty, ninety-five percent of you wouldn’t have any goddamn work.
- —Also the Jolly Contrarian
Be careful what you wish for. A world of certainty is a world of no doubt, no mystery, no je ne sais pas; no contingency, no disclaimers that past performance is no indicator of future results, not because it suddenly is an indicator, but because that accursed inductive mode of reasoning is at long last obsolete, all data is at hand and the future can be arrived at deductively, from first principles, the same way that rice pudding and income tax can be deduced from “cogito, ergo sum”.[1]