To Sklansky (David), Malmuth and all other poker know it alls!

[Vince Lepore]

A Satisfactory Philosophy of Ignorance

When the scientist tells you he does not know the answer, he is an ignorant man. When he tells you he has a hunch about how it is going to work, he is uncertain about it. When he is pretty sure of how it is going to work, and he tells you, "This is the way it is going to work, I'll bet," he still is in some doubt. And it is of paramount importance, in order to make progress, that we recognize this ignorance and this doubt. Because we have the doubt, we then propose looking in new directions for new ideas. The rate of the development of science is not the rate at which you make observations alone but, much more important, the rate at which you create new things to test.
If we were not able or did not desire to look in any new direction, if we did not have a doubt or recognize ignorance, we would not get any new ideas. There would be nothing worth checking, because we would know what is true. So what we call scientific knowledge today is a body of statements of varying degrees of certainty. Some of them are most unsure; some of them are nearly sure; but none is absolutely certain. Scientists are used to this. We know that it is consistent to be able to live and not know. Some people say, "How can you live without knowing?" I do not know what they mean. I always live without knowing. That is easy. How you get to know is what I want to know.
This freedom of doubt is an important matter in the sciences and, I believe, in other fields. It was born of a struggle. It was a struggle to be permitted to doubt, to be unsure. And I do not want us to forget the importance of the struggle and, by default, to let the thing fall away. I feel a responsibility as a scientist who knows the great value of a satisfactory philosophy of ignorance, and the progress made possible by such a philosophy, progress which is the fruit of freedom of thought. I feel a responsibility to proclaim the value of this freedom and to teach that doubt is not to be feared, but that it is to be welcomed as the possibility of a new potential for human beings. If you know that you are not sure, you have a chance to improve the situation. I want to demand this freedom for future generations."


- Richard Feynman

Errr. ...I mean Vince Lepore [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

[Demana]

"If you know that you are not sure, you have a chance to improve the situation."

Sweet! Now I can justify rivering someone! [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]

[andyfox]

I dont' play internet poker, but I notice somebody posted that Party dealt it's one billionth hand recently. One billion hands.

So there must be some people who are closer to being a poker no-it-all than they were before we had the internet.

[Vince Lepore]

Andy Fox? Hmmmm... now where have I heard that name before? Must be one of those I guys I listen to because he knows what he's talking about. Don't you hate those guys!

Vince [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

[metsmaniac823]

I thought Andy Fox was a pinch-runner / utility infielder on the Florida Marlins?

[cjmewett]

Texas Rangers

[FrankLu99]

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"If you know that you are not sure, you have a chance to improve the situation."

Sweet! Now I can justify rivering someone! [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]

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HAHAHAHQAHAAHAHAHAHAHQ
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[DrPhysic]

How darest thou question the holy scripture?

Knowest thou not that the holy poker books are to be memorized and quoted chapter and verse? Didst thou not read and memorize the stone tablet brought down from on high by the prophet David, which quoteth in the third chapter: “Every time you play a hand differently from the way you would have played it……”

How dare thou imply the corollary that if the game is a zero sum game of incomplete information, then the operator’s manual must also forever be a work of incomplete information?

Thinkest thou in your chosen ignorance that simple thought can devise a new idea, add a chapter to the holy books that will allow you to beat the lords and prophets that authored the scriptures?

How darest thou imply that READING is NOT a spectator sport?

DrPhysic

[JimandAnne]

"Its one thing to be resolute and its another thing to be resolute and be wrong!"

John Kerry

[scalf]

[img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img] you oughtta demand your forum back;;

this place has gone str8 to hades since vince (the forum) ceased existence...

gl

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