3 ms·

You shouldn't encourage ESR to produce content.

• scarmig 11y ago
  He can certainly produce good content when he wants to. It's just when you give him the chance, his ideological blinders make him go wild. Forcing him to make concrete predictions and disciplining him with empiricism would move his content from dealing with fantasies in his head to the actual existing world.
  • duncan_bayne 11y ago
    One can falsify claims without having to present alternatives. It works like this: http://www.smbc-comics.com/comics/20131031.png http://www.smbc-comics.com/comics/20131031.png
    • scarmig 11y ago
      It's unclear what you're even arguing for. Naive falsificationism? Even Popper didn't argue for that. Science works by building theories and programmes of research. A single counterexample, contrary to what you seem to think, doesn't invalidate a theory--it's driven by multiple lines of evidence. And ESR's strategy of digging through comments of source code to quote out of context fragments doesn't even approach providing a single counterexample, particularly when he admits that he's in a quest to show that climate scientists are a conspiracy, part Gaian-religionists and part KGB psyops. Like, really.
      • duncan_bayne 11y ago
        You wrote "forcing him to make concrete predictions". I took that to mean that you considered his criticism of climate models to be invalid because he hasn't produced better models himself. Perhaps I mistook your meaning.