# Edited 2021-11-14 - 00:21 # [[Epistemic status]] #shower-thought # Barbell thinking In [[Philosophy/Rationality/Models/Barbell strategy]], we usually live 80% in safety, 20% in danger, but here my thought experiment is the following: ## 80% speculative thinking Of the type #shower-thought #guru #schroedinger-uncertain , this way of thinking largely uses [[Philosophy/Rationality/Models/Exploration vs exploitation|exploration]] for new [[Information|information]], in other words, it is speculative. My examples: - [[Monkey Brain]] - [[Einstein]] discovering [[Relativity]] (I wouldn’t compare my ideas to his) ## 20% safe thinking Of the type #godel-uncertain #socratic #floating-point-error , this way of thinking largely uses [[Philosophy/Rationality/Models/Exploration vs exploitation|exploitation]] of our current [[Philosophy/Epistemology/Knowledge|knowledge]], in other, words it is safe. My examples: - #todo