190. Jonathan Rauch — The Constitution of Knowledge: A Defense of Truth
The Michael Shermer Show
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The Constitution of Knowledge, Is a Real Thing
The trick to this whole enterprise will make mistakes incredibly quickly, and we'll find them incredibly quickly. We'll set up a global network that will be able to vet hypotheses at the rate of millions a day - virtually all of which will be wrong. This becomes what we call science, but it'salso literary criticism, journalism, the law works according to these principles. And well, add something else, another great social innovation. Until then, people said the price for being wrong as you lose your job, you lose your head, you get ostracized from society. Now the price for making mistakes is just going to be, well, you lose the argument, but we courage people to
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