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Comment author: someonewrongonthenet 22 May 2015 04:12:13AM 15 points [-]

Recently I have realized that the underlying cause runs much deeper: what is taught by the sequences is a form of flawed truth-seeking (thought experiments favored over real world experiments) which inevitably results in errors, and the errors I take issue with in the sequences are merely examples of this phenomenon.

I guess I'm not sure how these concerns could possibly be addressed by any platform meant for promoting ideas. You cannot run a lab in your pocket. You can have citations to evidence found by people who do run labs...but that's really all you can do. Everything else must necessarily be a thought experiment.

So my question is, can you envision a better version, and what would be some of the ways that it would be different? (Because if you can, it aught to be created.)