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Needle in the Hay Sense-Making - Drs. M.S. DeLay & A.V. Bendebury DSPod #267
The last few weeks we've had some really explosive theories on the show, which have caused a stir in the comments and beyond. We sit down to talk about the philosophy behind why we believe exploring far out theories is so important, and use Paul Feyerabend's Against Method as the backbone for our discussion. We introduce the idea of scientific anarchy, which encourages us to lean into the uncomfortable reality that ideas cannot be prized simply because of their age, or their apparent agreement with existing data. The history of science is littered with theories that were wrong but useful, detectors that are engineered to give us the results we are expecting, and the weighty knowledge that the absence of evidence tells us nothing about what we'll find when we take a closer look at the inner workings of nature.
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00:00 Go!
00:09:56 Podcast insider conspiracy theories
00:16:10 Surrendering to being a useful idiot
00:20:55 becoming a valuable mouthpiece
00:23:48 Patronage of the billionaire king
00:28:24 Two types of conspiracies
00:35:48 Can a free internet rise again?
00:44:35 Monoliths vs chaos, enter Paul Feyerabend
00:48:56 Heuristics and other cognitive offloads
00:55:08 Calcifying opinion into fact
00:58:02 Science is a historical process
01:01:37 Subservience of science to technology
01:04:31 Why Michael Hudson doesn't take libertarians seriously
01:06:49 Handling non-human entities
01:09:40 Triggering the psychological immune system
01:14:06 Counter-rule science
01:17:07 The approach of the Platonic Redditor
01:21:49 An argument for scientific anarchy
01:26:25 All theories have a little bit of gold
01:29:18 Does the buck stop anywhere?
01:35:45 All models suck, but I want to believe
01:41:39 Searching for the needle in the hay
01:47:26 Closing thoughts
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