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Re:What a Newfound Kingdom Means for the Tree of Life by noonespecial on Tuesday December 18, 2018 @05:28PM (#18711198)
In that regard I always admired Eliezer Yudkowsky's idea of working to become "less wrong" as you progress. It kind of sums that up perfectly.

We haven't got it all figured out yet, but we're less wrong than we used to be.

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Re:What a Newfound Kingdom Means for the Tree of Life by mrob on Tuesday December 18, 2018 @06:09PM (#18711479)
Or before Yudkowsky, Asimov's idea of "the relativity of wrong":

https://chem.tufts.edu/answersinscience/relativityofwrong.ht...

"Naturally, the theories we now have might be considered wrong in the simplistic sense of my English Lit correspondent, but in a much truer and subtler sense, they need only be considered incomplete."

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Re:What a Newfound Kingdom Means for the Tree of Life by saadat on Tuesday December 18, 2018 @10:38PM (#18712819)
That link omits some parts of the essay. Complete version here: http://hermiene.net/essays-trans/relativity_of_wrong.html
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