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Mysterious Answers

Aug 24, 2017 by Eliezer Yudkowsky

This sequence asks whether science resolves the problems raised so far. Scientists base their models on repeatable experiments, not speculation or hearsay. And science has an excellent track record compared to anecdote, religion, and . . . pretty much everything else. Do we still need to worry about “fake” beliefs, confirmation bias, hindsight bias, and the like when we’re working with a community of people who want to explain phenomena, not just tell appealing stories?

187Fake Explanations
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310Guessing the Teacher's Password
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176Science as Attire
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143Fake Causality
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162Semantic Stopsigns
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247Mysterious Answers to Mysterious Questions
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127The Futility of Emergence
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126Say Not "Complexity"
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178Positive Bias: Look Into the Dark
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143Lawful Uncertainty
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119My Wild and Reckless Youth
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125Failing to Learn from History
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204Making History Available
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123Explain/Worship/Ignore?
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167"Science" as Curiosity-Stopper
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196Truly Part Of You
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Interlude
178The Simple Truth
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