- Everyone walks around thinking they are right
- author digresses on how everything from his younger days was “wrong”
- We cannot all possibly be right
- we approximate
- Scientific ideas that we thought were true have now been proven wrong. Hence we are most likely “wrong” in our views
- To ensure you are “less wrong” seek out conflicting views, multiple perspectives
- you only truly understand a conflicting view if you can convince others you believe it
Now to get a bit meta, I will analyse why the view above could be interpreted as being more wrong then right.
What the post describes is actually a symptom, and not the cause. What is being described can be explained by a few axioms:
- we socially construct our reality
- we have an inherent need to make sense of the world, to understand
given the above
we reinterpret the past based on our current knowledge and judge something as wrong based on the present.
Another simpler way to put this, is you can never know you are wrong/right in the present.
Only once you have done something can you evaluate if it is right/wrong.
It is like the halting problem, for anything of some complexity we cannot know if we have the right answer also have a look at P versus NP.
Agree? Disagree? Thoughts? Let me know