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> I can pick up a college textbook on interval calculus and be reasonably assured of its veracity because it's been checked over by a proofreader, other mathema
by altilunium 4y ago
> I can pick up a college textbook on interval calculus and be reasonably assured of its veracity because it's been checked over by a proofreader, other mathematicians, the publisher, and finally has been previously used in a classroom environment by experts in the field.
Well, even a very popular scientific theory, that supported by the whole consensus of academic society at its time, could be proved wrong decades later.
- ihateolives 4y ago> Well, even a very popular scientific theory, that supported by the whole consensus of academic society at its time, could be proved wrong decades later. Oddly enough that's usually only the case for big theories, but not for everything. You'd hard pressed to prove wrong our understanding on how to build bridges, for example. Would you live in the skyscraper designed by chatgpt?