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This Idea Must Die: Scientific Theories That Are Blocking Progress (Edge Question)
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The Anarchist and the Hockey Stick
experimental-history.comLike most social and political theory, the story Hobbes and his successors told was really unacknowledged autobiography.
Bob Black • The Abolition of Work
In general, when theories are easily variable in the sense I have described, experimental testing is almost useless for correcting their errors. I call such theories bad explanations. Being proved wrong by experiment, and changing the theories to other bad explanations, does not get their holders one jot closer to the truth.
David Deutsch • The Beginning of Infinity: Explanations That Transform the World
A scientific theory is never proven right. It’s simply not proven wrong. Only when scientists work hard—but fail—to beat the crap out of their own ideas can they begin to develop confidence in those ideas. Even after a theory gains acceptance, new facts often emerge, requiring the refinement or complete abandonment of the status quo.
Ozan Varol • Think Like a Rocket Scientist: Simple Strategies You Can Use to Make Giant Leaps in Work and Life
today governments have played virtually no role in the breakthroughs in “foundation models” that are revolutionizing computer science.