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These institutions helped us manage our trade as the uncertainty and the complexity grew, and our personal control was much lower.

As Douglass North saw it, institutions are a tool to lower uncertainty so that we can connect and exchange all kinds of value in society.

And I believe we are now entering a further and radical evolution of how we interact and trade, because for the first time, we can lower uncertainty not just with political and economic institutions, like our banks, our corporations, our governments, but we can do it with technology alone.

Which brings me to my point of how blockchains lower uncertainty and how they therefore promise to transform our economic systems in radical ways.

So uncertainty is kind of a big term in economics, but I want to go through three forms of it that we face in almost all of our everyday transactions, where blockchains can play a role.

Do they have great reviews and ratings, or do they have no profile at all? Reviews, ratings, checkmarks: these are the attestations about our identities that we cobble together today and use to lower uncertainty about who we're dealing with.

So I've talked about how blockchains could lower uncertainty in who we're dealing with.

The second uncertainty that we often face is just not having transparency into our interactions.

The last uncertainty that we often face is one of the most open-ended, and it's reneging.

So rather than all of our uncertainties slowing us down and requiring institutions like banks, our governments, our corporations, we can actually harness all of that collective uncertainty and use it to collaborate and exchange more and faster and more open.

And if we can do that, if we can approach the great vastness of all that we do not know, and then, rather than fear uncertainty, maybe we can greet it with a sense of wonder.

What we do have as we take a bath in the uncertainty and unknowns and exceptions and outliers that surround us in sarcoma is easy access to what I think are those two most important values for any science: humility and curiosity.

So while I could not control the instability of their homes, the uncertainty of their next meal, or the loud neighbors that kept them from sleep, I provided them with a loving classroom that made them feel proud of who they are, that made them know that they mattered.

So very often, we talk about statistics as being the science of uncertainty.

You see, life in a society where there are no social institutions is riddled with danger and uncertainty, and simple questions like, "What are we going to eat tonight?" are very complicated to answer.

So, question number one is: Can you see uncertainty?

So I was trying to find ways to better communicate this to people, to show people the uncertainty in our numbers.

The humility of uncertainty.

And as you're stepping into those, you're embracing the humility of uncertainty.

And so, as we're embracing that humility of uncertainty, we should be asking each other, all of us, a question.

"What is it that you have changed your mind about and why?" "What uncertainty are you humble about?"

But it's one thing to know that; it was a very different experience to actually live with the sadness and uncertainty of a serious illness.

This uncertainty turns out to be crucial.

And in fact you can calculate the incentive that the robot has to allow the human to switch it off, and it's directly tied to the degree of uncertainty about the underlying objective.

It creates an overwhelming sense of uncertainty and anxiety, and so, we let the future just happen to us.

By putting ourselves into different possible futures, by becoming open and willing to embrace the uncertainty and discomfort that such an act can bring, we have the opportunity to imagine new possibilities.

We've seen a growth of extremism in politics and religion, all of it fueled by anxiety, uncertainty and fear, of a world that's changing almost faster than we can bear, and the sure knowledge that it's going to change faster still.

I was full of ontological uncertainty and existential angst.

We don't know how they're going to react as the planet heats up, and hidden in that uncertainty might be hope.

But uncertainty is not ignorance.

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