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Re:Show HN: I built an active community of trans people online by wizzwizz4 on Friday January 24, 2025 @06:30PM (#42817959)
You're not giving that impression, but your criticism was warranted. (I don't understand falsification as well as I thought I did.)

I wouldn't quite say that thought experiments are always deceiving (Albert Einstein found them quite useful, for example), but they are very parodiable. https://existentialcomics.com/comic/183

> "Did he just… not see any of us?" "Rationalists are terrible at seeing stuff. He probably just tried to deduce who was here from reason alone."

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Re:Show HN: I built an active community of trans people online by mmooss on Friday January 24, 2025 @06:40PM (#42818017)
> criticism

Really, purely curiosity. At first, one thing I was wondering was if some new theory might have caught hold in some corner of academia, for example. Then I wondered if I misunderstood falsification myself.

> Einstein found them quite useful, for example

He is why I made the exception for math. His 'experiment' used math (exclusively?) - and wasn't relied upon until confirmed empirically.

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