He explicitly marks the Putin explanation as a speculative hypothesis, not certain knowledge, and says its value lies in the predictions it generates.
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Hypothesis
He explicitly marks the Putin explanation as a speculative hypothesis, not certain knowledge, and says its value lies in the predictions it generates.
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He presents model-building as an iterative learning process: make theories and hypotheses, attach predictions, keep the model if predictions happen, and revise if they do not.
The scientific method consists of questions and hypotheses, protocols for testing hypotheses, experimentation, and a system of doubt and criticism through peer review.
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"...I'm going to do today is, I'm going to present a hypothesis. And there's going to be a lot of problems with this hypothesis."
"But the good thing is that with any hypothesis, there is embedded in it a prediction model. So I'm going to explain to you..."
"I see my mission as trying to educate as many people as possible. I'm trying to help you understand the world and I understand..."
"...basically, right? So only if you can experiment, only if your hypothesis matches experimental results can it be true."
"Now last thing is it creates a system of doubt and criticism in order to test all experimental results. And today we call them..."
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The episode begins with two escalations: Ukraine expands, Iran heats up.
Science begins here as a theological discipline of doubt.
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