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You Have No Idea How Wrong You Are
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A talk given at the 2011 Nammour Symposium at Sacramento State arguing that past generations were wrong about nearly everything, so we should expect to be wrong too. It tours the many surprising ways scientific beliefs have failed, drawing on pessimistic induction.
HN uses it as a reference for epistemic humility and how wrong even the smartest people have been.
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