“Are you in favor of 75,000 suicides and tens of millions of starving children across the earth? Either face the problem of lifting the lockdown or you
This book is about beliefs---how we get them and how we evaluate them. It takes the form of a fictional conversation makes the following points: 1) in analogy with robots, we humans know by the models we make of reality, 2) these models are always provisional and sometimes unreliable, 3) it is especially important to examine thoroughly those models upon which we base actions, and 4) the scientific method provides an excellent guide for such examination. The level of exposition is neither technical nor deeply philosophical
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