What people actually want and believe in are not contentless-but-likely tautology-like theories, but highly informative, explanatory, and therefore less probable theories—Popper became skeptical of probabilistic approaches to knowledge for this reason.

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Matjaž Leonardis

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what people actually want what they believe in what they seek are not kind of these sort of tautology like contentless but likely theories as it were but kind of these incredibly informative... explanatory and therefore kind of less likely theories

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Matjaž Leonardis - Science, Identity and ProbabilityDwarkesh Patel
Created: 6/13/2026, 7:01:37 PM

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