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Falsifiability

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Falsifiability or Refutability is the capacity for a statement, theory or hypothesis to be contradicted by evidence. For example, the statement “All swans are white” is falsifiable because one can observe that black swans exist. (From Wikipedia)

De­co­her­ence is Falsifi­able and Testable

Eliezer YudkowskyMay 7, 2008, 7:54 AM
47 points
42 comments9 min readLW link

Build­ing In­tu­itions On Non-Em­piri­cal Ar­gu­ments In Science

Scott AlexanderNov 7, 2019, 6:50 AM
56 points
27 comments11 min readLW link
(slatestarcodex.com)

Unit Test Everything

DirectedEvolutionSep 29, 2022, 6:12 PM
30 points
0 comments8 min readLW link

Dou­ble Crux — A Strat­egy for Mu­tual Understanding

Duncan Sabien (Deactivated)Jan 2, 2017, 4:37 AM
192 points
108 comments12 min readLW link

On the falsifi­a­bil­ity of hy­per­com­pu­ta­tion, part 2: finite in­put streams

jessicataFeb 17, 2020, 3:51 AM
26 points
7 comments4 min readLW link
(unstableontology.com)

How to provide a sim­ple ex­am­ple to the re­quire­ment of falsifi­a­bil­ity in the sci­en­tific method to a novice au­di­ence?

ValApr 11, 2016, 9:26 PM
9 points
58 comments2 min readLW link

The vir­tu­ous cir­cle: twelve con­jec­tures about fe­male re­pro­duc­tive agency and cul­tural self-determination

Miles SaltielDec 27, 2023, 6:25 PM
0 points
2 comments14 min readLW link

Cy­berE­con­omy. The Limits to Growth

Timur SadekovFeb 13, 2025, 11:26 AM
1 point
0 comments23 min readLW link

Quadratic mod­els and (un)falsified data

BuckyMar 8, 2020, 11:34 PM
32 points
8 comments3 min readLW link

How Pop­per kil­led Par­ti­cle Physics

J Thomas MorosNov 7, 2017, 4:55 PM
7 points
6 comments1 min readLW link
(backreaction.blogspot.co.uk)

On the falsifi­a­bil­ity of hypercomputation

jessicataFeb 7, 2020, 8:16 AM
24 points
4 comments4 min readLW link
(unstableontology.com)
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