“If falsehood, like truth, had only one face, we would be in better shape. For we would take as certain the opposite of what the liar said. But the reverse of truth has a hundred thousand shapes and a limitless field.” – Montaigne
“There were two of us in the hunt, and when two men set out to find a golf ball in the rough, they expect to come across it where the straight line marked in their minds eye to it, from their original positions, crossed. In the same way, when two men set out to investigate a crime mystery, it is where their researches intersect that we have a result.” – Joseph Bell
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- 1-2g New theory is constrained in terms of what it can say, since it must either be consistent with existing theories, or contradict them but address the problems thereby raised
- 1-2g2c1 Testability matters only when you have a good explanation (hard-to-vary explanation)
- 1-2g2q1 Science is about independent replication. Only trust as scientific truth what can be independently verified-replicated.
- 1-2g2t3d Because creation (and growth) of knowledge is in essence error-correction, and because being wrong is way easier than being right, knowledge-creating-bearing entities will become more alike (and thrive) across the multiverse
- 1-2h A good explanation makes it harder to fool yourself
- 1-2i Brandolini’s Law (the Bullshit Asymmetry Principle)—the amount of energy needed to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude bigger than that needed to produce it
- 7-1a2 You can also make their problem as your problem by using growth as a guidance.
- 8-1c4a2 Twitter’s 140-character limit was useful constraint
- 9-2a It’s easy to convince if people don’t know you enough for what you are not
- 10-2g1b1 Scientific discourses are less fallible because the fundamental theories of physics are exceedingly hard to vary
- 10-2g1b2 Good products are hard to vary