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Unless this vision can be directly disproven, why should anyone attach labels like "grandiose" or "nonsense" or "empty"?
by djtriptych 10y ago
Unless this vision can be directly disproven, why should anyone attach labels like "grandiose" or "nonsense" or "empty"?
- abritinthebay 10y agoThat's the exact opposite of the correct approach. Unless it can be proven (and he doesn't, at all, prove his case) then there is no reason to not describe it as such. (Grandiose is the exception - that's a stylistic judgement and quite apt here, irrespective of its truth value)
- irickt 10y agoIt's a fair question. The quote is one reviewer's opinion. I posted it without explanation as context for the paper. A more neutral warning is that Tegmark has moved from conventional science towards untestable speculation. That and the fact that he has cultivated funding sources more aligned with the occult than with science has left many of his peers seemingly resentful.
- derrickdirge 10y agoCan you think of something that's sufficiently 'disproven' so as to make those labels appropriate?