Ep 72: David Deutsch comments on recent UFO sighting (The "Tictac" issue). A question for David 3.
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Neil Tyson's Apologies for the Aversion to Academic Philosophy - I Don't Know.
Neil deGrasse Tyson talks about how unreliable observations are and data-taking is more generally. In many moods, Neil Tyson is an empiricist. I've never heard Neil say much about philosophy that makes me think he has read much at all in the field. He'll start to make certain errors like claiming scientific instrumentation is necessarily more reliable than humans. You never know if it's your instrument that's going wrong, because maybe you don't know about the instrument and how it works. A human can be correct, and an instrument can be incorrect,. Because the instrument needs calibration, and it needs a good theoretical underpinning of how it works behind it.
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