the Ptolemaic models at the time of Copernicus were actually very sophisticated and highly predictive, the main advantage of the heliocentric system is it is much simpler and elegant, accounting for planetary motion with far fewer epicycles
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I think about this a lot, because there have to be cases where it's true. I am deeply invested in better systems of sorting wheat from chaff. To get them we have to find ways to trick the lying chaff into telling on itself though.
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