We all knew that Vaden would release his inner Youtube debate bro at some point. Well he finally paid Ben enough to do it, and here we are: our first reaction video. Today we're commenting on the video What's the most rational way to know?, a discussion between Brett Hall and Peter Boghossian on the relationship between confidence and evidence. Are we overly confident in our ability to make reaction videos? Evidently.

Check out more from Brett Hall here and Peter Boghossian here.

We discuss

What is the relationship between confidence and evidence?
The "formal apparatus of science" vs the "sociology" of science
Eddington's famous experiment
Why confidence and belief can't be mathematized (But why they are useful nonetheless)
Confidence as a function of falsifying experiments
Bayesianism vs critical rationalism

References

Paper discussing how it took the wider scientific community over 40 years (after Eddington's experiment!) to become convinced in the truth of general relativity: The 1919 measurement of the deflection of light
Eddington's original paper:
Vaden and Brett's blog exchange

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