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In that regard I always admired Eliezer Yudkowsky's idea of working to become "less wrong" as you progress. It kind of sums that up perfectly. We haven't got i
by noonespecial 8y ago
In that regard I always admired Eliezer Yudkowsky's idea of working to become "less wrong" as you progress. It kind of sums that up perfectly.
We haven't got it all figured out yet, but we're less wrong than we used to be.
- mrob 8y agoOr before Yudkowsky, Asimov's idea of "the relativity of wrong": https://chem.tufts.edu/answersinscience/relativityofwrong.htm https://chem.tufts.edu/answersinscience/relativityofwrong.ht... "Naturally, the theories we now have might be considered wrong in the simplistic sense of my English Lit correspondent, but in a much truer and subtler sense, they need only be considered incomplete."
- saadat 8y agoThat link omits some parts of the essay. Complete version here: http://hermiene.net/essays-trans/relativity_of_wrong.html http://hermiene.net/essays-trans/relativity_of_wrong.html