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I thought the article was not great. But the fact that she's changed her mind on the topic makes me like her a lot more. How can we learn more if we don't chang

• ssivark 7y ago
  Nothing wrong with changing one’s mind. But need to be thorough enough to provide a rigorous rebuttal of the arguments made by one’s past self :-)
• SiempreViernes 7y ago
  I wasn’t very convinced by the 2016 text either, but the point is more that she’s gone from that clearly stated position to mentioning the importance of ”philosophy of science” in her attacks on current practice without much evidence (that is, not writing about it) that there has been any shift of conviction. It looks more like Hossenfelder found something discarded in the shed and temporarily use it as a club in want of something better. A slight intellectual dsihonesty.
• yunesj 7y ago
  > How can we learn more if we don't change our mind? I think it's also possible to learn without having strongly held beliefs about the subject beforehand. This alternative reminds me of Descartes (don't assimilate knowledge until you are sure of it's veracity) and Bayes (keep track of degree of belief about traditionally non-probabilistic things). Maybe such an approach would help getting trapped in local optima. E.g., I'd imagine it would be hard to climb out of the theist energy well once your world view were based on it.