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  • Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.world
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    12 days ago

    Hello? Yes, I would like one survivorship bias, please, but could you add some physics and a little philosophy so it’s less obvious I have an untestable, maladaptive hypothesis? Oh, and coping mechanisms on half. Thanks!

    In all seriousness, it’s a fun theory, but it’s unknowable at this point.

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      12 days ago

      It’s not unknowable, you just have to conduct enough tests personally to have a reasonable level of confidence.

      You shouldn’t, but you could.

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        12 days ago

        Okay, first of all, that’s clever and hilarious, so thank you.

        Secondly, I put it to you that testing this either results in the end of personal knowledge entirely or else an outcome that can’t be peer-reviewed. I feel like that’s a pretty hard limit on the knowledge that can be gained here.