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Stirling S Newberry's avatar

"You can't explained to an individual a concept when getting paid every week relies on him not understanding it."

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Professor Harding likely does not remember me, but he was perhaps my favourite lecturer, perhaps partly because he had the luck to teach trusts which I loved, certainly because he was a considerate, engaged and lovely teacher, but poignantly in the present context, because he, clearly rather fusion-y, could have open and friendly discussions about the topic with a rather traditionalist anti-fusion-y little me.

I hope he is alright!

As ever I agree with pretty much all that you wrote, as well. I can remember telling my own kids that they, but especially everyone else were literally better off if they did _not_ know about homelessness, pollution, war, famine or anything else if they did not first have some idea about what had been before, what was elsewhere, some basic statistics and at least conceptually, probabilistic distributions.

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