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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the continual addition of epicycles in the Ptolemaic system over 1000 years is one of the most important stories in scientific investigation people should give heed to, in order to better detect when we are doing the same (endlessly adding epicycles) to "save the theory"
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a similar kind of adding epicycles can be observed in grievance narratives, in which an initial theory is promoted to solve a problem, but when the problem isn't solved to satisfaction, further stipulations are added to the theory so it is never disproved
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The problem with grievance narratives besides this is that they extend anecdotal and individual grievances into class grievances. There's a kind of free rider problem at work, and a problem of getting more of what you subsidize.
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You can't sort the authentic grievances from the false ones once they have metastasized into an intersubjective narrative. Similar problem with trans tenders as with BLM. "We've been injured" is like "we're pregnant"; "You took away everything, even the evidence you took it away"
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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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