I wrote some tweets yesterday saying that I don't think we should *trust* expert opinion.https://twitter.com/christianjbdev/status/818880043472617472 …
I have a feeling he was getting at the same thing abt uncritical faith being a problem but great merit nevertheless?
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I dunno. I suspect my tweets are regurgitated third hand Popperism.
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In that I've never really read Popper, but I've read books by people who have been influenced by him and I'm echoing their args
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But I'm probably also screwing these arguments up and not quite getting them right.
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As I've only read a few articles by people using his ideas, I couldn't say. He certainly wasn't easy to satisfy!
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I also get uneasy feeling that Popperism is a bit cultish. He tends to be quoted by libertarians & you know what they're like!
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Thing is, some knowledge domains don't offer falsifiability, but are nonetheless fascinatingly plausible. /1
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Here are four: cosmology; evolutionary biology/psychology; aesthetics; and yoga. 2/2
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