Against Bayesianism — David Deutsch
The Joe Walker Podcast
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Do You Have Any of Your Favourite Examples of Failed Predictions or Doomsaying Books?
One of my favourite agons is old books about the future. And i sort of collect these books mainly to remind myself not to prophesy. But some of the ones i have sitting on my bookshelf downstairs are toward the year thousand 18, which was published in 19 68. There's leiester thoreau's book, head to head. You know that the aging won't kill us, but something else might kill a. So if that comment in my book said that nothing is known tat that that a mandates that, then it's not prophecy. But if i accidentally phrased it as a prophecy, then i'm wrong. you know, popyrians shouldn't
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