# "Explaining Knightianism on one foot" by Richard_Ngo

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Published: 2026-09-11T07:15:22+00:00
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I’ve tried various times to summarize the core question my research is trying to tackle (and, indeed, I often think of research progress as a process of asking increasingly good core questions). This post gives the deepest version of that question I’ve found thus far: how should you relate to the parts of the world you can’t directly model or control? Let me explain further in terms of a distinction between two perspectives. From the third person perspective you think of yourself as “outsi...

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