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You Have No Idea How Wrong You Are

SisyphusRedeemed · talk · Watch on YouTube

Scientific method & science communicationPhilosophy & ethicsReligion, belief & skepticism

What it is

A talk given at the 2011 Nammour Symposium at Sacramento State arguing that past generations were wrong about nearly everything, so we should expect to be wrong too. It tours the many surprising ways scientific beliefs have failed, drawing on pessimistic induction.

Why Hacker News recommends it

HN uses it as a reference for epistemic humility and how wrong even the smartest people have been.

  • 1 people recommended it
  • 1 different months
  • 1 strong recommendations
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What HN commenters said

  1. “Here is a terrific video that sums up this point very well -”

    Shows even the smartest people have been dead wrong.

    WayneDB, 2013-09 · Strong recommendation · in “Didn't Get Enough Sleep? You Might As Well Be Drunk”

Excerpts from Hacker News comments, linked to the originals. Summaries and labels were written by a language model from those comments.

Topics: being wrong, pessimistic induction, philosophy of science, skepticism, history of science

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