We want to minimize the times that we're surprised. Everything that happens is a little bit unlikely because it could have been anything else. And so there's this compromise where you sort of try to home in on something you think is most likely, but you do give allowance for the deviations. So what you are talking about effectively is a non-equilibrium steady state.

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