"I reckon that I outgrew the desire to generate random runs every time I want to explore an idea—but by dint of playing with a [[Monte Carlo]] engine for years **I can no longer visualize a realized outcome without reference to the nonrealized ones**. I call that “summing under histories,” borrowing the expression from the colorful physicist [[Richard Feynman]] who applied such methods to examine the dynamics of subatomic particles." --- **Tags** -- [[quotes]], [[fooled-by-randomness]], [[survivorship-bias]], [[probabilistic-thinking]], [[making-decisions]] **Source** -- [[202410121132 - B - Fooled by Randomness]]