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The limitless potential of human knowledge | David Deutsch

The TED Interview

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The Science of Error Correction

We take for granted that we have things like the scientific community. We also don't understand what it takes in a culture to support error correction. What we want is system for correcting traditional knowledge. But tradition, by definition, is something that stays the same over generations. And so karl poppa coined the phrase, a tradition of criticism. This is an extremely unusual form of tradition ithas happened very rarely in human history. It matters that we slowly start model it in some ways, in innor namaes.

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