Tobydaly1: July 16, 2021, 5:25pm
It was highly recommended to me by an ER doctor.
An excerpt:
“If you really want to be right (or at least improve the odds of being right), you have to start by acknowledging
your fallibility, deliberately seeking out your mistakes, and figuring out what caused you to make them. This truth
has long been recognized in domains where being right is not just a zingy little ego boost but a matter of real
urgency: in transportation, industrial design, food and drug safety, nuclear energy, and so forth. When they are at
their best, such domains have a productive obsession with error. They try to imagine every possible reason a
mistake could occur, they prevent as many of them as possible, and they conduct exhaustive postmortems on the
ones that slip through. By embracing error as inevitable, these industries are better able to anticipate mistakes,
prevent them, and respond appropriately when those prevention efforts fail.”
– Kathryn Schulz, Being Wrong: Adventures in the Margin of Error
Daniel: July 18, 2021, 10:56pm
Excellent! I recently did some workshops with Quantum Physicist David Deutsch who is an avid Popperian – the
most essential Popper issue is that of a steadfast commitment to falsifiability challenges as the ultimate determinant
of robustness.