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And I said, "I'm not studying everything that can go
wrong.
What I'm studying is how much love there can be, even when everything appears to be going wrong."
Now, some people look at this and talk about shallow materialism, but that's absolutely the
wrong
way to look at it.
— Freeman Dyson] Which brings up another great question: What could possibly go
wrong
in this new machine age?
When facts are false, decisions are
wrong.
And none of them are
wrong.
And I think it's the sort of technology that's gone
wrong.
When riot police have to protect parliaments, a scene which is increasingly common around the world, then there's something deeply
wrong
with our democracies.
Now, don't get me wrong, I think there are tons of great uses for unarmed civilian drones: environmental monitoring, search and rescue, logistics.
And it becomes worse when it's enshrined in religious fatwas based on
wrong
interpretation of the sharia law, or the religious laws.
So how can we be so collectively
wrong
by misreading or ignoring the science of the fact that when an instability has developed, and the system is ripe, any perturbation makes it essentially impossible to control?
When Mahatma Gandhi was asked, "How do you know if the next act that you are about to do is the right one or the
wrong
one?" he said, "Consider the face of the poorest, most vulnerable human being that you ever chanced upon, and ask yourself if the act that you contemplate will be of benefit to that person.
Three years later, I found out how
wrong
I was.
Getting it wrong, and the pharmaceutical industry can still do very well for its shareholders but nothing improves for the people with bruised shins.
So what I'm suggesting is maybe we have the cause and effect
wrong
on obesity and insulin resistance.
So what if we're fighting the
wrong
war, fighting obesity rather than insulin resistance?
What if some of our fundamental ideas about obesity are just
wrong?
But that doesn't mean my bias is wrong, and most important, all of this can be tested scientifically.
But step one is accepting the possibility that our current beliefs about obesity, diabetes and insulin resistance could be
wrong
and therefore must be tested.
And two, if we're willing to be wrong, if we're willing to challenge the conventional wisdom with the best experiments science can offer, we can solve this problem.
I'm going to be talking about designing humor, which is sort of an interesting thing, but it goes to some of the discussions about constraints, and how in certain contexts, humor is right, and in other contexts it's
wrong.
All entertainment contains a little frisson of danger, something that might happen wrong, and yet we like it when there's protection.
In other words, for something to be funny, we've got to think it's both
wrong
and also okay at the same time.
If we think it's completely wrong, we say, "That's not funny."
"Excuse me — I think there's something
wrong
with this in a tiny way that no one other than me would ever be able to pinpoint."
So I asked myself, what's
wrong
with this picture?
Well, the assumptions are
wrong.
Now, please don't get me wrong, okay?
It is
wrong.
What is the mechanism in the Chinese model that allows people to say, actually, the national interest as you defined it is
wrong?
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