Will_Pearson comments on The Sheer Folly of Callow Youth - Less Wrong

24 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 19 September 2008 01:30AM

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Comment author: Will_Pearson 19 September 2008 06:38:30AM 0 points [-]

"A theory which is not refutable by any conceivable event is non-scientific. Irrefutability is not a virtue of a theory (as people often think) but a vice." - Karl Popper, Conjectures and Refutations

Popper is traditional rationalism, no? I don't see young Eliezer applying it.