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Science moves through long stretches of normal work broken by paradigm shifts.
Recommended by: Nat Eliason, Charlie Munger, Mark Zuckerberg and 5 others
The limits of scientific knowledge and what cannot be measured
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Falsifiability as the line between science and non-science.
Reality through four strands: many-worlds physics, computation, evolution, Popper.
Recommended by: Naval Ravikant, Patrick Collison and 2 others
Rare, unforeseen, high-impact events drive history, explained only after the fact.
“The message of The Black Swan is how important it is to realize that the things everyone rules out can still come to pass.” — Howard Marks
Source: Oaktree memo 'The Limits to Negativism'
Recommended by: Howard Marks, Marc Andreessen, Nat Eliason and 18 others
How the Copernican revolution unfolded, as a turning point in scientific thought.
“Kuhn, The Copernican Revolution” — Paul Graham
Source: Rarely-Asked Questions — paulgraham.com
Recommended by: Patrick Collison, Paul Graham
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