flâneur — a map of the web's best reading

The Beauty of Settled Science - LessWrong

lesswrong.com · 2,331 words · saved by 1 readers

Facts do not need to be unexplainable, to be beautiful; truths do not become less worth learning, if someone else knows them; beliefs do not become l…

x The Beauty of Settled Science — LessWrong Joy in the Merely Real Scholarship & Learning Replication Crisis Frontpage 114 The Beauty of Settled Science by Eliezer Yudkowsky 24th Mar 2008 2 min read 22 114 Facts do not need to be unexplainable, to be beautiful; truths do not become less worth learning , if someone else knows them; beliefs do not become less worthwhile , if many others share them… …and if you only care about scientific issues that are controversial, you will end up with a head stuffed full of garbage. The media thinks that only the cutting edge of science is worth reporting on.

Explore this link on the map →

related reading