“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
