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That’s a good point, I suppose the other way we could do science is by looking into the time machine at the future where the experiments have already been done and we just read the results from the future and use that to decide which experiments to actually conduct based on the results they’ll eventually produce.

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I guess this is useful for individuals who suffer from extreme autism and have trouble understanding social interactions. Which to be fair is a huge percentage of HN user base.

Nobody is saying the results are shocking. They’re saying that it’s still worth doing experiments to check things that “seem obvious” because we have been incredibly, dangerously wrong about things that “seem obvious” millions of times before.

Perhaps you could help everyone out by writing down what’s obvious to you so we know not to try to verify them by, you know, actual truth discovery. Bofadeez’ intuitive vibes are totally sufficient henceforth.

Let's do a study on whether it's generally painful to touch a hot stove with an unprotected hand. I know it sounds obvious but that's the spirit of science! No, I haven't suffered a head injury, I think this is a good idea!

Like I said, we buffoons would be better just using your intuitions :)

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