Your strength as a rationalist is your ability to be more confused by fiction than by reality. If you are equally good at explaining any outcome, you have zero knowledge.

Eliezer Yudkowsky
About This Quote

This is a quote from the author, Jonathan Gottschall, who is the author of "The Storytelling Animal: How Stories Make Us Human." He says that, "If you are equally good at explaining any outcome, you have zero knowledge." He also says that "Any story is infinitely more complex than any outcome it predicts."

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