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> Unfortunately, what we know about epistemology is contained largely in the work of the philosopher Karl Popper and is almost universally underrated and misund
by dcre 12y ago
> Unfortunately, what we know about epistemology is contained largely in the work of the philosopher Karl Popper and is almost universally underrated and misunderstood (even — or perhaps especially — by philosophers). For example, it is still taken for granted by almost every authority that knowledge consists of justified, true beliefs and that, therefore, an AGI’s thinking must include some process during which it justifies some of its theories as true, or probable, while rejecting others as false or improbable.
This is where I gave up. Deutsch dismisses thousands of years of thought in a sentence. Not to mention that "justified true belief" is a phrase you find much more often in a textbook or an encyclopedia article than in a real work of philosophy.