“Popper’s criterion can be met only by societies that expect their #knowledge to #grow–and to grow unpredictably. And, further, they are expecting that if it did grow, that would HELP. This expectation is what I call #optimism, and I can state it, in its most general form, thus:

The Principle of Optimism

All evils are caused by INSUFFICIENT knowledge.”

— The Beginning of Infinity: Explanations That Transform the World de David Deutsch

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