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#162: Why Science? (Bret Weinstein & Heather Heying DarkHorse Livestream)

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The Product of Science Is Models That Work

The only valid use of a computer model is not to test something but it is to create a hypothesis which you would then need to go test in the empirical world. The correct product of science are models that work and I do not mean computer models. If you are going to do computer models, you want the simplest model that manages to predict something going forward - predicting going forward is the key.

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