#104 (C&R Chap 10, Part V) - The Duhem-Quine Thesis

It's only taken us 104 episodes of talking incessantly about Karl Popper to get one of the most important and popular criticisms of falsification: The Duhem-Quine thesis. Should we wrap the podcast here? Is it game over?

We discuss

Does AI need more economic thinking?

The role of background knowledge in conversation

The allure of verificationism

The Duhem-Quine thesis

The role of competing theories in combatting the thesis

Are conspiracies the price we pay for independent thinking?

References

Michael I. Jordan on ML Street Talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AREWYbVtX64

Our conversation with Ben Recht: https://www.incrementspodcast.com/91

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