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Optimism. Ideas from @ToKTeacher, @DavidDeutschOxf, @naval, and Karl Popper. Curated by @pixelhacks. youtube.com/channel/UCbk8a… Joined March 2022-
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Computers are physical objects, and computations are physical processes. What computers can or cannot compute is determined by the laws of physics alone, and not by pure mathematics. @DavidDeutschOxf
Every generation has its doomsayers, Cassandras, and modern Malthusians who say, “On this trajectory, we’re all going to die.” They’re very popular for the same reason that zombie movies and vampire movies are popular. @naval
Conjecture or hypothesis must come before observation or perception: we have inborn expectations; we have latent inborn knowledge, in the form of latent expectations, to be activated by a stimuli to which we react as a rule while engaged in active exploration. — Karl Popper
But are there philosophical problems? The present position of English philosophy—my point of departure—originates, I believe, in the late Professor Ludwig Wittgenstein’s doctrine that there are none; that all genuine problems are scientific problems. — Karl Popper
The idea of self-emancipation through knowledge is a powerful enemy of fanaticism; for it makes us try hard to detach ourselves or even to dissociate ourselves from our own ideas (in order to look at them critically) instead of identifying ourselves with them. — Karl Popper
The war of ideas is a Greek invention. It is one of the most important inventions ever made. Indeed, the possibility of fighting with with words and ideas instead of fighting with swords is the very basis of our civilization. — Karl Popper
A theory that explains everything, explains nothing. — Karl Popper
Optimism is, in the first instance, a way of explaining failure, not prophesying success. It says that there is no fundamental barrier, no law of nature or supernatural decree, preventing progress. @DavidDeutschOxf
I am always careful to focus solely on ideas. We are criticising ideas. Not people. People have ideas. But they are not identical to ideas. This is important. @ToKTeacher
Those ‘clinical observations’ which analysts naively believe confirm their theory cannot do this any more than the daily confirmations which astrologers find in their practice. — Karl Popper
Humans are exceptional; humans are capable of maximal knowledge. @naval
The truly privileged theories are not the ones referring to any particular scale of size or complexity, nor the ones situated at any particular level of the predictive hierarchy – but the ones that contain the deepest explanations. @DavidDeutschOxf
Despite all the complaining about how productivity growth is stagnant, the reality is, anyone who owns a smartphone or drives a car has seen technology improve their quality of life over and over again. We take this progress for granted, and it’s thanks to science. @naval
The whole motivation for seeking a perfectly secure foundation for mathematics was mistaken. It was a form of justificationism. @DavidDeutschOxf
Making something social destroys the truth of it because social groups need consensus to survive—otherwise they fight and can’t get along—and consensus is all about compromise, not truth-seeking. @naval
So far, most of the pessimistic predictions have turned out to be false. If you look at the timelines on which the world was supposed to end or environmental catastrophes were supposed to happen, they’ve been quite wrong. @naval
Everything we know is always conjectural, which is to say it contains truth, but it’s not the final truth. @ToKTeacher
Every test of a theory, whether resulting in its corroboration or falsification, must stop at some basic statement or other which we decide to accept. If we do not come to any decision then the test will have led nowhere. — Karl Popper
The feeling that one is certain is no guarantee at all that one is in possession of the final ultimate truth. @ToKTeacher
The Principle of Mediocrity opposes the pre-Enlightenment arrogance of believing ourselves significant in the world; the Spaceship Earth metaphor opposes the Enlightenment arrogance of aspiring to control the world. @DavidDeutschOxf
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