
Episode 59: The Principle of Optimism (Round Table Discussion)
The Theory of Anything
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The Principle of Optimism in Critical Rationalism
The heat death of the universe doesn't rule out solving the actual problems that we're trying to solve now, even though there will be an infinity of problems that we will never solve. I think it's just accepting what we accept in other domains that sometimes the solution to a problem is an impossibility result. And you have to take the solution in whatever form it manifests itself. That's the analogous result to the proof of the irrationality of the square root of two. It would crash with the way that we understand philosophy of science, because philosophyScience works because it doesn't have an end. The speed where we always insist on this, where we need to maximize the speed at which we discover
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