Reply #32: Hi, I'm Donald Rumsfeld

[nuxvomica]

Or am I? I don't know if I actually said that but I know what I think and I assume that's what I said. I may not be Donald Rumsfeld but actually slices of Donald Rumsfeld. The message is that there are known knowns - there are things that we know that we know. There are known unknowns - that is to say, there are things that we now know we don't know. But there are also unknown unknowns - there are things we do not know we don't know. And each year we discover a few more of those unknown unknowns. We do know of certain knowledge that Donald Rumsfled is in Afghanistan, or in some other country, or dead. When I will know if I'm Donald Rumsfeld can't be predicted now but may be predictable after I found out. I would not say that the future is necessarily less predictable than the past - I think the past was not predictable when it started.