Rob Lamb

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7,220 appearances 31 recordings 4 series first heard Sep 2026 last heard 2d ago

Rob Lamb’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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Recordings per month over the last 12 months — 31 in all, peaking in Sep 2026 with 31.

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Stuff To Blow Your Mind · From the Vault: The Devil You Know, Part 1 · 24 Sep 2026 podcast

Well, it sounds like bet A is the surer thing, right? voice-verified

They could be worse. voice-verified

It could be zero. voice-verified

Yeah, yeah. voice-verified

I mean you'd you'd kind of expect that within the um you know constraints of a testing environment and you'd definitely ex expect that out of the world. voice-verified

Uh you know, whatever whatever form this was taking. voice-verified

You'd assume that somebody had a vested interest in uh manipulating how you were gonna behave to the uh how you're gonna respond to the two possibilities. voice-verified

That's right. voice-verified

Or you know, or you know, you can easily imagine too a situation where you're you're playing some sort of a game, be it a tabletop role-playing game or some sort of like uh you know, video game, and you're given a choice between two items for your character, right? voice-verified

You you have the stats of those items right there. voice-verified

Yeah. voice-verified

You know what kind of enemies you go up against in the game. voice-verified

Maybe you've played through the game before. voice-verified

You have something at least approaching perfect knowledge uh of of a simplified world. voice-verified

world and our real world is is not so simplified and there's so many variables to it. voice-verified

That's right. voice-verified

And that brings us back to Ellsberg, uh, who again, in in addition to uh crafting this uh highly influential paper, uh was also um a a highly vocal critic of nuclear weapons and again the rhetoric surrounding nuclear weapons. voice-verified

And um I I was re I was reading a good bit uh from his book, The Doomsday Machine, which came out in twenty twelve, where uh which is quite a good read if you want a much deeper dive into his thoughts on all of this. voice-verified

Um but uh you know in in that book the the subject of ambiguous data comes up numerous times. voice-verified

How will a nuclear power react in response to ambiguous data about a potential incoming attack? voice-verified

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