It bears repeating: in order for humanity's understanding of the world to become incrementally more correct, individuals have to be free to be wrong.
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Almost all strange ideas are wrong, and they're usually not even wrong in a useful direction. But the exceptions are the only vector for progress — the real threat isn't error, but homogeneity of thought. Human knowledge is not a loading bar that steadily fills on its own.
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Succinct.
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Yes but mistakes are also non-linear. Wholeheartedly agree with popperianism on the individual level but as a society, there are some mistakes that can be too costly to make or unrecoverable.
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The mechanisms in our culture not to make a mistake of that type are incredibly competent. This isn't a garantee that they will always work though, eventually some type of mistake might occur, that the system can't solve, so we have to stay ahead of it in a Popperian fashion.
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I would love to turn this tweet into an interview if you are gamehttps://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/crazy-wisdom/id1354589767 …
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All ideas are imperfect. Pure truth is inaccessible.
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Homogeneity *is* the error in cases where it inhibits the creation of better theories/ways of doing things.
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