On 06/14/16 15:15, Bill Ricker wrote:
> And Astronomers/Astrophysicists (as with practitioners any other science)
> should be taken with a grain of salt or two when they leave their area of
> expertise.
+1
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On 06/14/2016 10:38 AM, Bill Ricker wrote:
> If the statistical model is guilty of over-fitting (too many degrees of
> freedom aka too many parameters), the model is non-falsifiable in the
> short-term. (But eventually enough data will show that adding 5th order
> epicycles is guff.)
On Tue, Jun 14, 2016 at 3:37 PM, Rich Pieri wrote:
> You can read more about it here:
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On 6/14/2016 3:15 PM, Bill Ricker wrote:
> There's a difference between their computational model embedded in there
> somewhere.
There is. Tyson's odds are his personal opinion while Musk's "odds" are
him pulling numbers out of his ass to make catchy sound bites for the media.
The simulation
On Tue, Jun 14, 2016 at 12:33 PM, Rich Pieri
wrote:
> Thing is, simulation hypothesis (simulated reality) isn't a scientific
> hypothesis. It's a philosophical one.
>
I would *like* to agree with that.
But Musk and Neil deGrasse Tyson are quoting odds that are
On 6/14/2016 10:38 AM, Bill Ricker wrote:
> Indeed. Science is based on hypothesis-testing. Only a "falsifiable"
> hypothesis is testable.
Yup.
Thing is, simulation hypothesis (simulated reality) isn't a scientific
hypothesis. It's a philosophical one.
As for Musk, he's very good at
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On Tue, Jun 14, 2016 at 8:16 AM, Eric Chadbourne wrote:
>
> I'm reading up on being "unfalsifiable" now. Fascinating
Indeed. Science is based on hypothesis-testing. Only a "falsifiable"
hypothesis is testable.
If evidence against a conspiracy theory is taken to
> That hypothesis is unfalsifiable, therefore I throw it out with the tea
I'm reading up on being "unfalsifiable" now. Fascinating.
Eric
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