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Edgelord Energy (Robin Hanson & Agnes Callard, with Rory from The Violet Hour)

Minds Almost Meeting

CHAPTER

The Importance of Knowing Your Proof Is Wrong

"Can i just show you where your experiment failed to do what i think it should have done because mine doesn't replicate yours or can I just show you these things and have that might my immediate contribution?" "I'm not sure how to answer this question but i might be annoyed at you for that," he says. He then goes on to explain the socratic refutation in terms of a person trying to understand their own error, rather than showing them an original proof they've built up from start-to-finish. In effect his destruction is incomplete so maybe we never need to complete it if we know our proof is wrong even though there's still no evidence as to its origin

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