
Episode 61: A Critical Rationalist Defense of Corroboration
The Theory of Anything
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The Importance of Corroboration in Science
There's certain aspects of Bayesianism that have very similitude. We test theories to interrogatively amongst other things we test theories to intuitively measure if the theories implications are true for various testable areas. So testing may not guarantee me the code is entirely correct, but it does give me confidence that certain highly used paths through the code will work correctly because I verified that they did. And this is now a different way of understanding why corroboration is so important to science.
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