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David Deutsch: A new way to explain explanation
TED
Physicist David Deutsch's TED talk on why science took off, arguing that good explanations are those that are hard to vary. It contrasts scientific explanation with myth.
HN points to it as a short, tight introduction to Deutsch's idea of hard-to-vary explanations.
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