{"id":8101,"date":"2020-05-18T08:01:39","date_gmt":"2020-05-18T14:01:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=8101"},"modified":"2020-05-18T08:01:40","modified_gmt":"2020-05-18T14:01:40","slug":"do-you-have-a-theory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=8101","title":{"rendered":"Do You Have a Theory?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ben-evans.com\/benedictevans\/2020\/5\/16\/not-even-wrong\">Ben Evans<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"caret-color: rgb(27, 27, 27); color: rgb(27, 27, 27); font-family: -apple-system-font; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.3); -webkit-text-size-adjust: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration: none; display: inline !important; float: none\">The thread through all of this is that we don\u2019t know what will happen, but we do know what could happen &#8211; we don\u2019t know the answer, but we can at least ask useful questions. The key challenge to any assertion about what will happen, I think, is to ask \u2018well, what would have to change?\u2019 Could this happen, and if it did, would it work? We\u2019re always going to be wrong sometimes, but we can try to be wrong for the right reasons. The point that Pauli was making in the quote I gave at the beginning is that a theory might be right or wrong, but first it has to rise to the level of being a theory at all. So, do you have a theory?<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ben Evans: The thread through all of this is that we don\u2019t know what will happen, but we do know what could happen &#8211; we don\u2019t know the answer, but we can at least ask useful questions. The key challenge to any assertion about what will happen, I think, is to ask \u2018well, what would [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8101"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8101"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8101\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8102,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8101\/revisions\/8102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}