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| | | | | Last week, I had the honor of giving the annual Paul Bernays Lectures at ETH Zürich. My opening line: "as I look at the list of previous Bernays Lecturers---many of them Nobel physics laureates, Fields Medalists, etc.---I think to myself, how badly did you have to screw up this year in order to end up... | |
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| | | | | I've been increasingly tempted to make this blog into a forum solely for responding to the posts at Overcoming Bias. (Possible new name: "Wallowing in Bias.") Two days ago, Robin Hanson pointed to a fascinating paper by Bousso, Harnik, Kribs, and Perez, on predicting the cosmological constant from an "entropic" version of the anthropic principle.... | |
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selfawarepatterns.com
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| | | | | A question long argued in the philosophy of science is the demarcation problem. How to we distinguish science from non-science? Karl Popper famously proposed falsifiability as a criteria. To be science, a theory must make predictions that could turn out to be wrong. It must be falsifiable. Theories that are amorphous or flexible enough to... | |
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