Rob Lamb

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7,886 appearances 32 recordings 4 series first heard Sep 2026 last heard yesterday

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Stuff To Blow Your Mind · From the Vault: The Devil You Know, Part 2 · 26 Sep 2026 podcast

the the normal parameters of ambiguity aversion were in place. voice-verified

So people were still averse to ambiguity, but in equal measure. voice-verified

Uh whether they had just learned about a car crash or about the exciting world of train schedules. voice-verified

Yes, exactly. voice-verified

But again, so many studies come out about this. voice-verified

Uh they're they're new ones all the time. voice-verified

It's just such a a fascinating way to sort of get in and crunch how we make decisions in life uh based on how we deal with ambiguity and the inherent ambiguity of of life. voice-verified

Yeah. voice-verified

I mean, that's one of the reasons we've talked about this before in the show. voice-verified

It's one of the reasons we like things like zombie apocalypse uh scenarios. voice-verified

Not because we necessarily like the idea of the world ending or of the dead coming back to life and trying to eat our brains, but baked into those scenarios, there's often like a simplification of how the world works, um, a removal of some degree of the ambiguity. voice-verified

And there's often a still in in any good fiction, I think. voice-verified

You're gonna have a contemplation of ambiguity as well. voice-verified

But in broad strokes, you might have a scenario boiled down to like, okay, well, now it's the living versus the dead. voice-verified

Now it's the clear good guys versus the bad guys. voice-verified

Um and what is the answer? voice-verified

Well, it's always blasting it with a shotgun, right? voice-verified

Mm, you where where the the cause of the scenario is ambiguous, you mean? voice-verified

Alright, we're gonna go ahead and close up this episode, but we'd love to hear from everyone out there. voice-verified

We know that everyone has experience with ambiguity in life, uh judging it, being adverse to it, uh rolling the dice anyway, and so forth. voice-verified

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