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Vitalik Buterin
@vitalik.eth
Sometimes you can believe the right thing for the wrong reason.
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Vitalik Buterin
@vitalik.eth
It's dangerous to encourage people to believe false things (or quietly fail to correct false beliefs) if they lead to correct conclusions though. Such strategies may work in the short term, but the world is chaotic, and generally a wrong-but-helpful belief today will become a wrong-and-harmful belief tomorrow. We learned this with the whole 2020-era attempt to try to convince people that covid is not airborne so that people would not hoard masks and leave them for emergency staff. It ended up leading to really harmful misconceptions that are still persisting.
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@july
14/40 = 1/0 ????
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@aviationdoctor.eth
Gettier problems! One of my favorite class of epistemological failures (along with the free pass given to moral luck, and the tolerance of “little follies”, i.e. seemingly innocuous superstitious beliefs) https://warpcast.com/aviationdoctor.eth/0x63ab01cb https://warpcast.com/aviationdoctor.eth/0x7f35e5b8
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@dummie.eth
When you fail an exam successfully
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@casey3
Great illustration that applies to all of life. Reminds me of concepts from the book, "Thinking, Fast and Slow". In years of following you I've never responded to a post but I really appreciate your logical and rational mindset in what you put forward. Keep up the amazing work @vitalik.eth !!
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@hongd
make eth graet again
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crypto empire
@manzak
i like math
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@susa
this is brilliant☺️☺️
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@notedebug
It's like someone makes excuse to be right
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Bala @Herstory
@0xbala.eth
and get a great result
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@nomadproductions
An argument can have a true conclusion but still be unsound. A basic fact from syllogisms and the source of many fallacies.
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@diashley
Ahhhhahahahahaha, my math teacher would kill me for this 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣
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@youngzeroway
Whole geometry lessons during my school time were about it You always could know exact answer but couldn't prove it
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Igor Stadnyk
@igorstadnyk
Yes, it's not just about being right. How we reach our conclusions matters. Good thinking habits and sound reasoning are crucial, especially when we're dealing with complex issues where we can't always immediately verify if we're correct.
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@mesokla
So right
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@pang1
sometime
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@heisenberg76
Woow😱
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Interesting 😂
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