Caledonian2 comments on Science Isn't Strict Enough - Less Wrong

13 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 16 May 2008 06:51AM

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Comment author: Caledonian2 16 May 2008 07:07:13PM 0 points [-]

Surely this is a good thing, else fear of being thought stupid would overly discourage people from raising novel hypotheses. The problem is encouraging a private, epistemic standard as lax as the social one.

1) How exactly do you intend to enforce the more rigorous private, epistemic standard?

2) How do you expect novel hypotheses to be raised in public if people will not consider them in private?