The Long Term Optimist

I often describe myself to folks as a short term pessimist, long term optimist. And i think this is a thing that we all need to have more of, which is this? A, yo, no. The idea of objective truth is an aspiration,. No one knows when they have it, no one ever will. But we can do do our best to get as close as possible to it. By criticising one another's hypotheses, keeping the ones that seem to withstand the criticism learn from our mistakes. We still might be totally wrong, but the fact that we have decimated extreme poverty and reduced deaths for war suggests we're probably not wrong about everything. If we follow the