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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?

14Fake Explanations
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14Guessing the Teacher's Password
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6Science as Attire
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8Fake Causality
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8Semantic Stopsigns
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24Mysterious Answers to Mysterious Questions
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8The Futility of Emergence
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4Say Not "Complexity"
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14Positive Bias: Look Into the Dark
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17Lawful Uncertainty
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4My Wild and Reckless Youth
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8Failing to Learn from History
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19Making History Available
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3Explain/Worship/Ignore?
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7"Science" as Curiosity-Stopper
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22Truly Part Of You
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Interlude
31The Simple Truth
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