Why We Haven't Solved Everything - by Judah - Be Wrong
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a taxonomy for problems + human-complete problems + why they'll always be around
It is the prerogative of every notable intellectual to formulate their own Grand Theory of Everything. Usually, this theory is wrong or, more often, vague enough to be unfalsifiable. But this, I’ve argued before, can be a good thing. We’d run out of space for ideas if we required all of them to be true, and correctness is not the best measure for usefulness. There’s a large market for these kinds of ideas, and BeWrong is merely one among many attempts to eschew the right for the interesting. But I figure that Grand Theories usually start off with a bunch of smaller Big Ideas: equally…
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