Episode 55: Why are Empirical Theories Special? (IQ part 3)
The Theory of Anything
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The Importance of Testable Theories
Theory of universality is a true theory, but breadth defenders are using immunization strategies to keep their theory from improving. They're taking a perfectly testable theory and they're figuring out ways to make it untestable. That's why we're suspicious of breadth theory. It's got nothing to do with it being a bad theory; it's how they're treating the theory that leads to the suspicion.
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