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For the principle of explosion to work you have to actually confirm that a belief is false, or at least calculate a justifiable probability that it is false. Yo
by hx87 10y ago
For the principle of explosion to work you have to actually confirm that a belief is false, or at least calculate a justifiable probability that it is false. You can't just assume that it is false and extrapolate from there.
- lmm 10y agoThe point is you can't assume it doesn't matter because it seems harmless-if-false. The grandparent asked "why do you care [whether the things Musk is saying are true]?", but the answer is that you have to care about anything that's likely to influence a large number of people.