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Lenny Sun's avatar

Such a polarizing show, right? It reflects a bigger and more nuanced dialogue. That it’s hard to find balance between trusting science and being open to rejecting widely-held beliefs. In one extreme you might become deeply establishmentarian and on the other extreme you could become a conspiracist lunatic.

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Wil Wiener's avatar

Excellently said, sir.

It’s funny - this makes me think about whether it’s better to be an establishmentarian or conspirator if you had to pick one. There’s good arguments for both.

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David's avatar

There's a great motto in philosophy that the only belief we should be dogmatic about is the dogmatic openness to our beliefs being wrong. Whales were fish until the 19th century!

Great post for science and for entrepreneurship!

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Wil Wiener's avatar

That’s a great quote, I might have to steal it. Definitely makes you wonder which things we believe in today that are going to turn out to be completely backwards.

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