Your beliefs should be falsifiable. They should have a self-destruct mechanism that you've put a lot of care into and carefully maintain. If you have no self destruct button for your worldview, there's no way to escape what you've created.
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Replying to @Aella_Girl
Is your belief that beliefs should be falsifiable itself falsifiable?
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Replying to @ChefGuevara_ @Aella_Girl
Yes. Good explanations should always supersede bad ones. Fallibilism is no exception.
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what could falsify it?
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A rational argument that shows unfalsifiable beliefs have any provably useful application
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let me get this straight: S's belief that Q ("S should believe that P iff P is falsifiable") could be "falsified" by a valid argument that demonstrates S's belief that P is "useful" (not that S's belief that P is either true or false)?
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Scott Stevenson Retweeted vitalik.eth
Yes - IMO this is part of what the “should” in Q means: https://twitter.com/vitalikbuterin/status/1272245348174528520?s=21 …https://twitter.com/VitalikButerin/status/1272245348174528520 …
Scott Stevenson added,
vitalik.ethVerified account @VitalikButerinThe converse is: if there is no vulnerability, there is no usefulness. If there is NO conceivable event that could disprove your theory, that means your theory doesn't actually help you confidently exclude any possible future state of affairs.Show this thread3 replies 0 retweets 0 likes
Lol damnit I didn't see vitaliks tweet before I made mine
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Great minds...
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