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73: What is Science? The Structure of Scientific Revolutions

Made You Think

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Is There a Trade Off?

i was kind of thinking about this same thing when i was reading the book. It's what led to the twet is, like, i i was calling them rationalists. If a rationalist thinks they can save ten thousand lives by killing three thousand people, they'll do it and think they're a hero. But if they were wrong in their assumptions, and they weren't actually going to save ten thousands lives, well, that's where things get really tricky. I and that's where increasing scepticism is justified, right? Like, if if we had a government who was very honest about the trade offs of things like that would be ofsi,.Like, i would

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